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...election by less than half a percentage point. He didn't run for a sixth term as Governor because he was planning a race for President. A good thing, since it would have been a difficult campaign. (The Democratic Lieutenant Governor, whom Dean endorsed, lost.) Civil unions hurt Democrats in the 2000 elections in Vermont, but two years later, Dean reaped the benefits: wealthy gays in the Fire Island Pines beach community off the coast of New York City were among the earliest, most generous donors to his unlikely presidential run. Dean doesn't emphasize his discomfort with gay marriage...
...issue will hurt Dean with conservative Democrats, especially the South, which Dean talks about as though it's another planet. He routinely offers skeptics two explanations when they ask how he can compete there. First, he says, he was campaigning in South Carolina a while ago and met an 80-year-old World War II veteran who turned out to be gay. The man thanked him for signing the civil-union bill. The point of the story seems to be that you can't assume anything about Southerners, which is true, but it's more homily than strategy...
...persistent denials that the war in Iraq was a mistake and the claims that it was justified by intelligence are beginning to hurt us all. Are today's leaders so blind as to deny their failures? Isn't this stubbornness the result of a belief that admitting one's errors is abhorrent? It's a pity that the people in charge would nonchalantly throw away their potential to do good because of false pride. Maturity is required in leadership, but officials today think humility can lead to a loss of dignity. Ernesto Kelly Magtoto Las Pinas City, the Philippines...
...social studies concentrator in Adams House. His decision to spend the summer abroad had only a little to do with his distaste for Bush. He returns to the States with a flavour for the finer aspects of British life, including the wisdom that an extra vowel never hurt anyone...
...Ross unselfconsciously takes here. What eventually steals over you as Seabiscuit unfolds is that its New Deal America is a lot better than the one we inhabit--more generous and shyly exuberant, less noxiously self-centered and confident. Maybe that's just a movie illusion. But it wouldn't hurt us--politically, socially, humanly--if we began believing we could re-create that sweet, sustaining dream. --By Richard Schickel