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Bush aides tried to dress Jeffords in a Yankee clown suit, portraying him as addled from living among oddballs fond of natural fibers, gay marriage and socially conscious ice cream. "It's difficult to address all the quirks of someone who is self-described quirky, and I mean that with all respect," Karen Hughes said, adding, "There's something funny there." Aides described Jeffords, who has never met a camera he would preen for or a cheap shot he would take, as a powermonger seduced by Democrats with the promise of a committee chairmanship. This, although Republicans last week were...
...also speaks volumes about where these two archetypes of American industry stand. Bridgestone may be willing to send the Firestone brand on the road to extinction. Yet Ford is in the midst of an ambitious strategy to reinvent itself as the automobile industry's most socially and consumer-conscious force. Ford has staked its future on honesty. "The reason that they are spending so much money on this is that their credibility is at stake," says Merrill Lynch analyst John Casesa. "They are hoping that this obsessiveness now will in the end benefit the company...
...know if it?s a problem - it seems to be a very conscious decision. Conservative Republicans have become more cohesive in recent years, and have toed the line. The Republicans seem to demand something like lockstep from party members these days; they?ve apparently lost their ability to compromise or negotiate...
Recent studies of synesthetes who see colors in response to numbers and letters provide conflicting answers. Last year Mike Dixon of the University of Waterloo reported that merely imagining a number was enough to provoke synesthesia. And in March Australian researcher Jason Mattingley reported in Nature that the conscious recognition of a number is crucial to the generation of color. "You have to be aware of the meaning of what you see to experience synesthesia," says Dixon...
...lead article was headlined, “Sit-in Draws Counter-Protest, But No Talks.” The article focused on a group of about 20 students who were protesting PSLM’s sit-in. Throughout the protest, both PSLM and the administration had been highly conscious of their public image, and rightfully so. One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure...