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...Edison's line that genius is 99% perspiration," says Valenta. "She was a super-organized person." Which is why he was quick to notice when she began behaving oddly a few years ago - leaving the front door open when she left the house, "vagueing out" during conversation, struggling with basic instructions. In January last year, at the age of 54, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which doctors predict will end her life within six years unless there's a breakthrough in treatment...
...overwhelming majority of Muslims condemn violence committed in their religion's name. Many Islamic scholars take pains to point out that the basic texts of the faith never sanction the wanton murder of civilians--the defining feature of contemporary Islamic terrorism. But rage is shared by tens of thousands of radicals, estimated conservatively, who span the globe, from the badlands of Pakistan to middle-class neighborhoods of Western Europe. In Britain, a recent government survey put the number of hard-core Muslim radicals at 10,000 and growing. A poll of British Muslims in March found that 13% believe that...
...reverse course, on campaign-finance reform or creating the Department of Homeland Security, he did it so brazenly, without explanation or apology, that even caving was portrayed as an act of bold leadership. Above all, he has defended his decision to target Saddam Hussein even when some of the basic premises of the war turned out to be wrong. He has continued to argue that he has set Iraq on the path to democracy even when others say its future is so much in doubt...
...White House. "But that's his world. He sees things in black and white, and, well, guess what? Now people see him that way too. He made them that way. People either hate him or love him." People don't just disagree over his policies. They argue over the basic question of who he is, his intelligence, his integrity and his intentions. Was he a closet ideologue biding his time? Or did 9/11 change everything? People even disagree with themselves. Critics who once deplored his arrogance in dealing with Congress and the world felt differently when they sensed their safety...
...stumble raises two basic questions about Kerry's campaign. First, is he a latter-day Ron Burgundy--the idiot 1970s anchorman of Will Ferrell's recent film who would read anything that appeared on his TelePrompTer? Did Kerry not remember what he had said to Stephanopoulos? No, it was, apparently, yet another Kerry nanonuance: he is in favor of redeployments, just not now. The second question is far more dire: Why is Kerry wasting breath on such periphera? Why isn't he hammering Bush on his conduct of the Iraq war and the larger war against Islamist radicalism, which...