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...What People Hear, that locution can decide elections. The G.O.P. proved it in November. "Linguistically, they got sloppy," he writes. Luntz successfully promoted "death tax" for "estate tax," "climate change" for "global warming" and "scholarships" for "vouchers." Here, he gives TIME five stinkers '08 hopefuls should avoid. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] BAD WORDS WHY Listening So much for the listening tours that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made famous. Voters are in a results mood. "Too passive," Luntz instructs. "'Getting it done' is more active." Globalization The word "frightens older workers," Luntz warns, since they...
...roll back Bush's expansion of executive power in the previous Congress. A Democratic judiciary staffer supportive of a rollback said, "We understand the political reality." And leadership aides say bluntly that short of new revelations that turn public opinion against expanded executive authority, the Democrats are going to avoid directly confronting the President...
...Some people are fighting back, taking noise cases to court and trying to create quiet neighborhoods in India's biggest cities. One of my favorite signs in Delhi greets you as you enter a middle-class suburb of hushed lanes and leafy parks. "Avoid car horns they cause mental disorder," it reads. Phil Spector, who once admitted to being "relatively insane" and has been charged with the murder of a 40-year-old actress, may sympathize...
Coming up with that amount of money in a short period of time is difficult for even the most well-off. It’s no wonder that students often choose not to buy their books at all, or avoid the courses with particularly high costs. Many choose, instead, to rely on the Harvard library system to have the necessary books on reserve, only to find them checked out when major assignments or exams are around the corner. It is a shame that at the world’s premier educational institution, some students don’t have access...
...best way to tackle this problem is not to avoid the issue at hand, but to raise money to provide direct funding of students’ book purchases. Some have proposed simply augmenting the expenses section of the financial aid package, and letting low-income students decide what to do with extra money. That is outrageous for an institution whose first priority should be the education of its students. People should not have to choose between books for their classes and the other costs that inevitably arise at school...