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...proved his electoral apogee that year. But he had learned something about the subtle arc of a political season, a lesson about patience and timing that none of his current opponents for the Democratic nomination, rookies all, could possibly understand. This year, he has plodded along--the tortoise--as Howard Dean, who races through sentences so quickly that the words often tumble into one another, drew huge summer crowds and seemed to be gliding toward the nomination...
Gephardt began his speech by saying, "Most of us in this room can remember 1950"--a line Howard Dean undoubtedly has never uttered, since most of his supporters weren't born then. And it does seem that Gephardt's world view was pickled in 1950, in the era of big manufacturing and big unions and Big Government. There is a fair amount of nostalgia in Iowa for those days--and Gephardt's geriatric strategy, bolstered by his door-to-door stubbornness, may prove a stultifying antidote to Dean's unnerving whoosh of a campaign...
Turns out the Dalai Lama is a typical overachiever. In The Art of Happiness at Work, a follow-up to his best-selling collaboration with psychiatrist Howard Cutler, The Art of Happiness, the Tibetan holy man reveals that his most blissful moment didn't occur in a state of relaxation. It happened when he passed the final exams for his Geshe degree, akin to a Ph.D. in Buddhist philosophy. Practical achievement should be exhilarating, the Nobel laureate says, as long as work is a calling--whether that calling is to serve others, work in government or provide for a family...
...Holding Howard Dean signs and hardbound copies of Krugman’s books, fans scrambled for seats, trying to squeeze between the crowded aisles. Many stood in the back of the room fanning themselves with sheets of paper. When a woman finally announced from the podium, “We’ll be starting in five minutes,” the audience cheered ecstatically...
While many undergraduates were watching The Matrix: Reloaded in the Science Center, the Harvard Students for Howard Dean (HSHD) gave up their Friday evening to screen video footage of an angry Dean attacking President Bush and making his case for the presidency...