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...Bush has glided effortlessly through this presidency without a false step - an American sphinx, although one whose very presence conveys intimations of wisdom. Sittenfeld takes full creative advantage of that intelligent vagueness, and her novel encourages readers to do the same. I wonder, for example, what the First Lady would make of Jane Mayer's extraordinary account of the Bush Administration's torture policy, The Dark Side, which I read simultaneously with American Wife. It is no small astonishment that Sittenfeld's portrait of the President and his circle made Mayer's horror story more plausible for me: suddenly...
Although the conventional wisdom in the lead-up to amendment’s passage was that new, young voters would vote liberal, Cannon noted that the 1972 presidential election proved that notion false, as young people abandoned Democrat George McGovern's campaign in droves for Republican Richard Nixon's successful candidacy. That result happened again in 1980, as young people overwhelmingly turned out to support Republican Ronald Reagan...
...conventional wisdom finally became reality as Kerry carried the youth vote by a wide margin," Cannon said...
...political consultants say, a candidate needs a story. And the media seem capable of handling only one story: overcoming adversity. (In fact, they use the same story in profiling Olympic athletes.) This particular story has two morals. First, it says the candidate has the inner strength or the wisdom or whatever it takes to address the unpredictable challenges he or she will face if elected. Second, it suggests that the candidate will be able to empathize with voters and the adversities they face...
...billion in direct health care costs, according to the study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Diverticular complications can also include bleeding and tears in the colon, which contributes to 3,400 deaths annually from the disease in the U.S. Yet the conventional wisdom that sufferers should avoid certain foods may have been upended...