| The Cotton Candy Candidacy
Mickey Kaus first wrote about this impulse for a return to what some might consider a 9/10 world, something I believed the Democrats would try to do in this election cycle. In fact, Hillary Clinton rejected this theme and Obama embraced it. Look who is winning. There have been two great elections for change in my lifetime. In 1960, John Kennedy offered himself as the candidate best able to lead the country into a decade that most people saw as a pivotal period of confrontation with the Soviet Union. Kennedy made the case that his war experience best prepared him to lead the nation through the trials ahead in a radically changing world. He successfully sold himself as an agent of change despite the fact he was a creature of the Democrat Party establishment and a member of one of the richest families in the world.
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Party: Republican.
Age: 52.
Born: Aug. 24, 1955, in Hope, Ark.
Resides: North Little Rock, Ark.
Education: Bachelor's degree, Ouachita Baptist University, 1975. Master's degree, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1980.
Work history: Advertising director for Focus, 1976-80. Baptist minister, 1980-92. President of ACTS-TV, 1983-86. President of KBSC-TV, 1987-92. President of Cambridge Communications, 1992-96.
Political history: Elected Arkansas lieutenant governor, 1993-96. Appointed governor in 1996 when Gov. Jim Guy Tucker convicted of fraud and resigns. Elected to four-year terms in 1998 and 2002.
Religion: Baptist.
Books written: "Character is the Issue," "Kids Who Kill," "Living Beyond Your Lifetime," "Quit Digging Your Grave With A Knife and Fork," "From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 STOPS to Restoring America's Greatness." .
The man who directed 'Bonnie and Clyde'
The response to the film's then-unique blend of violence and comedy, sex and iconoclasm would be what we now know as the New Hollywood. Penn will be at the Harvard Film Archive this Friday, kicking off a four-day retrospective of his work. Sitting in the art-filled Upper West Side duplex he shares with his wife, he recently talked about his life and work. Despite a recent hospitalization for pneumonia, Penn was an animated and articulate conversationalist. "What happens is, you reach 85, and everybody says, 'Get him before he dies!,' " Penn laughs. "You like being celebrated, but you also know the clock is ticking." A trim, energetic man of medium height with a hang-dog face and striking light-blue eyes, Penn's casually dressed: sweater, chinos, a pair of Nikes.
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The Times ' Fishy Story Nevermind that scaremongering story about ...
New York Times reporter Marian Burros wrote herself onto Page One on Jan. 23 with a scaremongering story titled "High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi." Burros found that a regular, weekly diet of six pieces of the tuna sushi found in five Manhattan restaurants and stores "would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency" and quoted a professor of environmental and occupational medicine saying, "No one should eat a meal of tuna with mercury levels like those found in the restaurant samples more than about once every three weeks." As I write, the article is the fifth most popular e-mailed Times article. Before you jab yourself in the eyes with your chopsticks and swear off bluefin forever, consider the scientific findings on fish consumption.
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