Word: normalization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...life, just running on his daddy's name." Wead's report spelled out the dilemma that W. faced after his father took office: "It may seem that the President's children can do nothing right. Try something great, and appear grandiose and presumptuous. Try to lead a normal life, and appear lazy or unambitious. Try something artistic, and offend those who believe in causes. Any success will be credited by some to the family...
...with the quip," he says now. "Dad gives me advice when I ask him for it, my mom when I don't. She can be blunt, like me. My dad's always gracious." But you can also make the case that if his father didn't exactly have a normal childhood, neither did W. The death of his three-year-old sister Robin in 1953, when he was seven, has been seen as one source of his breezy manner; when sorrow settled over the house, the little boy saw it as his job to lighten things up, especially to cheer...
...ideas, forward me things. I don't initiate e-mail, and I keep my address secret, but I respond on e-mail, especially to him. He e-mailed me some thoughts on Elian Gonzalez. He counseled me early on about Mexico. He urged me to move beyond the normal business relationship and into the more cultural relationship...
...examine human consciousness. Cognitive science is a burgeoning field that employs analytical frameworks running the gamut from computer algorithms to psychological models to biochemical pathways. Meanwhile, these latest tools for thinking about thinking fit into an even broader tradition of introspection. Where today clinical definitions landmark the boundaries of normal and abnormal cognition, the psychiatric case studies of the past were more likely to be described in a Shakespeare play or Dostoevsky novel than in the pages of a medical text...
...President Bush, his hip hurting a bit and stomach churning more than normal (old-time ulcer knocking on the wall?), is in Philadelphia's elegant Rittenhouse Hotel, humor and asperity bubbling, TV clicker in hand, scolding the blaring monster screen on which friends and foes from the days of power are babbling about him and W. And while watching TV he is riffling through magazines, offering his own irreverent editing. "That's crazy... good pictures... hey, they got that right for a change...