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...illusion. The Democrats just look unified because the press isn't asking the right questions. It's comparing the candidates with George W. Bush--who inhabits a different ideological universe--when it should be comparing them with another world leader, Tony Blair. Viewed through that lens, the Democrats aren't so united at all. In fact, a deep foreign policy division runs through the party, not between the major campaigns but within them...
Plus, as Brody points out, his nerdiness didn't hold him back because even nerdiness isn't so nerdy anymore. "Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. The nerd now is the Bush Administration--supporting, anti-intellectual dumb ass." Whether that's true or not, it's clear the once desirable macho-jock type hasn't got such pull. There's a reason the Rock and Vin Diesel haven't filled the gap left by Schwarzenegger and Stallone: nobody minds the gap. And in a world without heroes...
...examine the second question first. The percentage of black ballplayers is in decline. And yet it's still roughly what blacks represent in the population as a whole. So they aren't significantly underrepresented. In the mid-1970s, when nearly 1 in 3 major league players was black, many people, including some liberals and some blacks, complained that they were overrepresented. The argument was that too many blacks were being steered into sports, distorting the young black male's sense of ambition...
...specified interest rate regardless of what student borrowers pay. Add low default rates (due in part to such dire consequences as garnisheed wages and torpedoed credit ratings) as well as soaring tuitions, and--voilą!--lenders are fighting one another to dole out $17 billion in supplemental loans that aren't backed by the government...
Naturally, some people aren't happy about marketers' following them there. In 2005 the advocacy group Commercial Alert asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate company-fed word of mouth and other buzz tactics, which the group says take authentic relationships and unduly commercialize them. Not all firms ask word of mouthers to disclose their corporate connection, but the Word of Mouth Marketing Association requires its 400-odd members to do so as part of its ethics code. There might also be a business case for disclosure, according to Northeastern's Carl. Working with BzzAgent data, he found that agents...