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...Cosby Show. Oh, Bill Cosby’s pearls of parenting wisdom. I will parent my kids based on the Cosby Show. Do you know the one with Vanessa and a clarinet? That’s the best. Vanessa plays the clarinet for a week and then wants to do something completely different, but Bill in all his parental wisdom explains they bought this clarinet and if she doesn’t use it who will? It’s great...
...voter loyalty, DeBergalis found his niche two years ago by creating his own constituency.Students are a demographic long ignored by Cambridge pols, considered by most observers to be a transient group with little interest in the civic goings-on of their temporary home. DeBergalis cast aside this conventional wisdom and embraced students as an untapped resource, canvassing dormitories at Harvard and MIT and shaping his platform around student-friendly issues such as late-night restaurant hours and bicycle safety. A month before Election Day in 2003, longtime local pundit Robert Winters said the dark horse candidate didn?...
Conventional wisdom on the business of bookselling goes something like this: independent bookstores cannot survive. No matter how knowledgeable their staff, how comfy their couches or how well they fill a niche, it is impossible to compete with the buying power of chains and the convenience and range of e-tailers...
...telling that to Andy Ross. The 59-year-old Californian has placed a $3.7 million bet--his house, his entire life savings and hefty loans from the bank and his brother--on conventional wisdom's being wrong. The owner since 1977 of Cody's Books, a Berkeley, Calif., institution that was tear-gassed in the '60s and bombed in 1989 in response to its commitment to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Ross has spent the past three years in the red. Rather than follow the Meg Ryan route (in the 1998 movie You've Got Mail, Ryan's character...
...woes heading into next year's mid-term elections. "We can't even win in Virginia?" Republicans will be asking themselves if the former state attorney general does not pull it out in his neck-and-neck race against the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Timothy M. Kaine. "The conventional wisdom will be that the Republicans are on the verge of a massive meltdown in 2006," says the University of Virginia's Larry Sabato, whose quotes to national reporters will do much to define that conventional wisdom. "It's easy enough to say these off-year elections are a harbinger," Sabato tells...