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Given the rigorous informality and artless effervescence required by the ceremonies of modern politics, John Kerry's rise to prominence is difficult to explain. His is a solemn New England sensibility. I have never seen him experience a moment of spontaneous wit; his nonspontaneous attempts at humor are ghastly. He is not a very compelling speaker. Indeed, when attempting to answer the most basic of questions--his position on the war in Iraq, for example--he tends to entwine himself in endless codicils and subclauses. And yet the Senator from Massachusetts breezed through the Democratic presidential primaries this year...
...saying that no one can run the world's largest company, you have to lead it. To CEO H. Lee Scott Jr., 55, that means being a combination talk-show host and taskmaster. Business meetings take place in an auditorium where praise and criticism are meted out with wit and a steely determination to get things right. Like his predecessor, David Glass, Scott is a modest man with a ready supply of pungent remarks. He has been on the receiving end too, as Wal-Mart's critics harp about its low-wage jobs and sprawling stores. Scott has no apologies...
...praise funky men--in particular, the funky men of OutKast. For no one has done more than Andre (3000) Benjamin, above left, and Antwan (Big Boi) Patton to infuse pop music with the wit and wiggle of ghetto Bohemianism, no one has done more for tent-size throwback jerseys and cumulus-cloud Afros, and no one has done more to unite the crumbling cultural terrain...
...interesting thing about Madvillain is that they are clearly having a blast chilling with their friends and occasionally recording. In contrast, College Dropout, for all its wit and creativity, often seems put on, a show to replace J-Hova in America’s hearts and minds...
With becoming modesty toward man-kind as a whole, it may be said that this is its usual process. Revolutions are energized by some actual need, their "general principles" being invoked as an incitement and justification. Like Touch stone, homo sapiens is never aware of his own wit till he breaks his shins against it. Yet the time may come when even college Presidents will no longer think is needful to camouflage a reversal of principle as a more change of emphasis. New York Times...