Word: contrarianism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Night to Bolster Bush," but the story is quick to make John McCain's rebellion-free speech the most important bolstering. But they also call him "subdued." WP ("Heartily Endorses") and USAT ("Salutes") both headline McCain. WSJ continues its two-steps-away convention coverage with a contrarian history piece about how the GOP loves its military night, but remember - this is the first ticket in forever without a veteran on it. Bush and Cheney, the deferment boys - that's not a nice ring...
...certainly something to be said for Mbeki's vigorous intellectual independence. He won't be told what to do by anyone. But even Mbeki's supporters fear that his stubbornness on AIDS may be increasing the risks to his countrymen. Pressure is growing for him to re-evaluate his contrarian stance on HIV and--at the very least--to allow AZT treatment for pregnant women. That demand in particular was endorsed last Friday by a man Mbeki can't easily refuse: Nelson Mandela...
...Allen Roses, a rapier-tongued contrarian then at Duke University, challenged the beta-amyloid orthodoxy. He announced that he and his colleagues had found a major Alzheimer's-susceptibility gene that affected the late-onset forms of the disease. It was the gene for APOE4, a common variant of the APOE lipoprotein, which is one of the many workhorses of the body's cholesterol-transport system. What, everyone wondered, could this lipoprotein, a known risk factor for heart disease, possibly have to do with Alzheimer's? Very quickly, many concluded that Roses could not be right...
...fare. The celebrity interviews, which make Walters' pre-Oscars weepfests look cerebral, are generous to a fault. (And how. Vieira once gave Wesley Snipes a lap dance--"after he requested it!" she protests.) There are numerous fashion features--Jones has often shilled her line of wigs--and for every contrarian service piece on "swimsuits for real women" there's a runway show of boobulous Victoria's Secret models. And the round tables aren't exactly World News Tonight. Just like your co-workers at lunch, the hosts shoot from the lip, sometimes with suspect facts. In an Elian Gonzalez segment...
...portrait of Ravelstein is an accurate analogy, Bellow saw Allan Bloom as passionate, sexual, a lover of young (very young) men, guided as the Greeks were by moral aestheticism. And yet he was a firm contrarian, deplored action on impulse, and was convinced, almost mythically, of the steadiness of certain virtues and of the necessity of a reflective life...