Word: making
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...love affair with presidential campaigns began back in 1980, when I covered Ted Kennedy and then Ronald Reagan as a lucky cub reporter for this magazine. Ever since, like a duck hunter or baseball fan drawn to opening day, I have managed to make it to New Hampshire for the start of the season...
...better or worse, each of these shows, like Roseanne, recognizes Philip Larkin's dictum: "They f___ you up, your mum and dad." They show families whose parents and kids make real, lasting mistakes that can't be resolved in 22 minutes. (That's not to say they're wholly realistic. Gilmore's Lorelai, unlike most teen moms, has a safety net of wealthy parents...
...folks who have the most reason to be concerned are those with a history of stroke or heart conditions; people older than 65; cancer patients; and anyone with elevated estrogen levels, such as pregnant women or patients taking estrogen supplements. There are also several circulatory disorders that can make the blood more susceptible to clotting. None of these necessarily means you can't fly; but you should be more careful...
...model, which in turn proves equally unworkable. This is as true of nutty little proposals by discontented geniuses--like the idea of communalist, rural "pantisocracy" put forward by Shelley, Coleridge and others in their youth--as it is of paranoid, pseudo-collectivist systems that take over whole societies and make huge contributions to the sum of human misery, like Stalinism. We flawed animals can be somewhat improved, spottily and with difficulty; but we cannot be perfected, which is what the Utopian project, in its various forms, is all about...
...They'll make F.D.R.'s look tepid...