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...riding in the country I think. She’s a pretty vibrant 80. 7.FM: You guys have been doing a thorough coverage of Ivy news, even breaking the infamous Aleksey Vayner story. Where do you get all of your information?N: When you go to an Ivy you tend to have friends at the other Ivy schools. You sort of build up this network. Then it really feeds itself. You get a really good tip, you write a really good item, and then more people will become tipsters. 8.FM: How many tips do you usually receive?C: It?...
It’s time lucky people joined candy, cake, and Christmas on the list of things that the young tend to prefer. According to psychologists at Harvard and Stanford, children between the ages of five and seven demonstrate a predilection for people who have seen their lives graced with good fortune as compared to those who have suffered from poor luck. Furthermore, this tendency is not limited to individuals, but rather, is applied to larger groups encompassing those individuals. This research may shed light on the origins of social prejudices. “Children prefer the lucky...
Conventional wisdom says that when it comes to politics, young people don’t matter. As a group, they tend to be apathetic, disillusioned, and too lazy to vote. No one buys into this mindset more than today’s politicians and policy makers...
...going to see people going into the voting booth and saying: I'm going to vote Democrat because of the disgusting things that Mark Foley said to a page. But campaigns are kind of organic. They have a certain growth and a certain progression about them. Scandals tend not to be voting issues, but they tend to be major interruptions, and they tend to cause all kinds of tactical and even strategic problems. Because what happens to a party or an individual candidate who is caught up in one of these things in the middle of a campaign is that...
...Mayhew notes, is that Congress doesn't just pass things in a vacuum. After 9/11, both parties felt a need to take steps to protect the country, leading to passage of the Patriot Act, creation of the Homeland Security Department and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also Presidents tend to overreach more when one party controls both the executive and legislative branches of government. Think of President Clinton's failed campaign to create universal health care in 1993 and President Bush's brief flirtation with radically restructuring Social Security in 2005; in both cases the Senate derailed legislation with...