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...failed president. Previous success does not predict a successful president. That's part of the interest of a presidential election - the uncertainty about what transformations, good or bad, may occur in the winning candidate when he becomes president. Perhaps no transformation at all will come to pass. Chester A. Arthur will remain Chester A. Arthur, and there is nothing you can do about it. But beware. Lewinsky or no Lewinsky, the American presidency still inspires some reverence - an awe that may work in complex ways. Voters may put an apparent doofus in the White House, yet in their...
...seconds past the wizarding hour of midnight last Saturday, the most annoying and unnecessary marketing campaign in publishing history finally delivered the goods. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 734 pages; $25.95) would have sold millions of copies had its U.S. and British publishers simply dumped them in bookstores, unannounced, and then got out of the way as word of mouth spread among stampeding Pottermaniacs. That is pretty much the way the first three books about the boy wizard so phenomenally caught fire among young readers and then their parents...
...seconds past the wizarding hour of midnight Saturday, the most annoying and unnecessary marketing campaign in publishing history finally delivered the goods. J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 734 pages; $25.95) would have sold millions of copies had its U.S. and British publishers simply dumped them in bookstores, unannounced, and then got out of the way as word of mouth spread among stampeding Pottermaniacs. That is pretty much the way the first three books about the boy-wizard so phenomenally caught fire among young readers and then their parents...
...Arthur Lara suggested...
That's a very reasonable concern. But if people who think like Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, have their way, we'll be able to sleep a little easier in our brave new world. Caplan advocates establishing some kind of confidentiality law that would prohibit unauthorized testing and the free exchange of genetic information - a safeguard that would ostensibly provide each of us with a modicum of privacy...