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Gephardt won the Iowa caucuses in 1988. He turned the campaign around with a single television ad, about the alleged unfairness of free trade. The victory 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...
...would not find it so easy to pursue its harmful and wasteful disinformation campaign. That campaign continues partly because of the widespread false belief that cannabis smokers are either irresponsible and socially marginal people or adolescents who “experiment” and “learn their lesson.” These lies are perpetuated when those who know better remain silent. The gay and lesbian out-of-the-closet movement has done much to reduce homophobia in this country. It may be difficult in the current climate where dissenters are intimidated and profiled, but if the many...
...proceeds to charity. To join, men - there are still only a handful of women - undergo a physical ("like something out of the army," says Wade) and pay €140, which doesn't include any of the training costs (from €14 per session, depending on where). The first lesson: taking a punch. More used to rhetorical jabs than any other kind, the men "screw up their faces or turn away," says boxing trainer Umar Taitt, whose two front teeth are gold set with diamonds. "In boxing, you can't flinch." Clearly, boxing appeals to some on a primal level...
Kane learned this lesson at Yale, where he recently completed six years as registrar. During that time, he oversaw Yale’s rocky transition to a new database for student records. Kane took the brunt of the criticism fired at his office for glitches in the system that led to such debacles as lost transcripts and “disappearing” students...
...enters the frame and sees what the audience sees: an old blind man, easy pickings. Two swaggering ruffians approach with swords drawn. Kitano pricks an ear?and faster than a whirring Cuisinart, they're in pieces on the ground, and Kitano is wiping the blood from his blade. The lesson is clear: whether he's blind or not, you don't tug on Superman's cape...