Word: loners
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...have people believe. Klein was right on! The airwaves are full of venom from the far right and hatred from the far left--what Klein calls the media's Anger-Industrial Complex. Almost everyone I know is just trying to decide whether we are better off with an arrogant loner who says what he thinks and has created our antiterrorism protections, or with a more sophisticated, learned man who seems to be saying anything to get elected and is untested in the war on terrorism. Here in the center, we believe that both are good men who share similar views...
...have people believe. Klein was right on! The airwaves are full of venom from the far right and hatred from the far left - what Klein calls the media's Anger-Industrial Complex. Almost everyone I know is just trying to decide whether we are better off with an arrogant loner who says what he thinks and has created our antiterrorism protections, or with a more sophisticated, learned man who is saying anything to get elected and is untested in the war on terrorism. Here in the center, we believe that both are good men who share similar views on many...
...where John is at his best." That is, of course, the party line among John Kerry's friends. He is great when his back is against the wall. He is studious, thorough and engaged when making policy decisions. He is independent to the point of being something of a loner. He takes on tough issues with little political upside--investigating drug running by Nicaraguan contras using CIA planes, investigating money laundering at the corrupt, Abu Dhabi--owned Bank of Credit and Commerce International, doing the scut work necessary to prove that no American prisoners of war were still being held...
Rosenthal cites a 1937 study by American philanthropist William T. Grant, which followed 268 Harvard students through College life and beyond. According to Rosenthal, the study concluded that the more sociable students do better in life. “Being a loner and irresponsible drinking have an adverse effect on later life,” he says. “Think 20 to 30 years ahead. It’s difficult to get out of a social rut after college...
Champollion and Fischer were lucky: they were heroes in their time. Deprived of the spotlight, genius can grow up twisted and strange. David Hahn was the child of divorced, clueless parents living in a David Lynch--perfect Michigan suburb in the mid-1990s. A loner and a compulsive tinkerer, Hahn somehow got it into his head in high school to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed, and damn if he didn't come close. In The Radioactive Boy Scout (Random House; 209 pages), Ken Silverstein describes how Hahn extracted radioactive elements from household objects--americium from...