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Sep. 27th, 2004
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Sep. 27th, 2004 11:15 amDebate Preparation Began With a Professor at Yale
People may think they have heard enough about the things that President Bush and Senator John Kerry have in common - Yankee ancestry, distant relatives, Skull and Bones. But there is one more shared experience, if readers can bear another ramble down the byways of Yale, which is of no small relevance in a week when the two presidential candidates face off in their first debate.
It turns out that Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry, two years apart in New Haven, shared the same oratory teacher and debate coach, Rollin G. Osterweis. Their training in speaking and thinking under Professor Osterweis influenced the kind of candidates they became, and will be part of their performances in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday.
Professor Osterweis, who died in 1982, was a courtly Yale professor who taught a popular and easy class, History of American Oratory, for a quarter-century. Both Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry took the course, which consisted of studying famous addresses by William Jennings Bryan, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, among others, as well as delivering a speech to Professor Osterweis and the class. Mr. Kerry, as is well known, went one step further and became a star on the Yale debate team, with Professor Osterweis as coach.
Aides say that Mr. Bush, who never tried out for the team, nonetheless took from the class lessons that he uses today: the importance of direct language, organized speeches and connecting with crowds.
People may think they have heard enough about the things that President Bush and Senator John Kerry have in common - Yankee ancestry, distant relatives, Skull and Bones. But there is one more shared experience, if readers can bear another ramble down the byways of Yale, which is of no small relevance in a week when the two presidential candidates face off in their first debate.
It turns out that Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry, two years apart in New Haven, shared the same oratory teacher and debate coach, Rollin G. Osterweis. Their training in speaking and thinking under Professor Osterweis influenced the kind of candidates they became, and will be part of their performances in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday.
Professor Osterweis, who died in 1982, was a courtly Yale professor who taught a popular and easy class, History of American Oratory, for a quarter-century. Both Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry took the course, which consisted of studying famous addresses by William Jennings Bryan, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, among others, as well as delivering a speech to Professor Osterweis and the class. Mr. Kerry, as is well known, went one step further and became a star on the Yale debate team, with Professor Osterweis as coach.
Aides say that Mr. Bush, who never tried out for the team, nonetheless took from the class lessons that he uses today: the importance of direct language, organized speeches and connecting with crowds.
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Sep. 27th, 2004 12:05 pmMichael Moore is coming to Hill Auditorium this Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. I'm rounding up a few people from work to go. Tickets are $5 (or $4 for students). Anyone want to come?
Edit: Never mind; I should have known. They're sold out.
Edit: Never mind; I should have known. They're sold out.
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Sep. 27th, 2004 02:16 pmLong Trip for Psychedelic Drugs
Psychedelic drugs are inching their way slowly but surely toward prescription status in the United States, thanks to a group of persistent scientists who believe drugs like ecstasy and psilocybin can help people with terminal cancer, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, to name just a few.
The Heffter Research Institute, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and others have managed to persuade the Food and Drug Administration to approve a handful of clinical trials using psychedelics. The movement seems to be gaining ground in recent years. Since 2001, the FDA and the Drug Enforcement Administration have given the go-ahead to three clinical trials testing psychedelics on symptomatic patients, and several more are on deck.
Psychedelic drugs are inching their way slowly but surely toward prescription status in the United States, thanks to a group of persistent scientists who believe drugs like ecstasy and psilocybin can help people with terminal cancer, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, to name just a few.
The Heffter Research Institute, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and others have managed to persuade the Food and Drug Administration to approve a handful of clinical trials using psychedelics. The movement seems to be gaining ground in recent years. Since 2001, the FDA and the Drug Enforcement Administration have given the go-ahead to three clinical trials testing psychedelics on symptomatic patients, and several more are on deck.
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Sep. 27th, 2004 02:46 pmVoters in Ohio Give Political Ads Thumbs Down
Key voters in this key state don't like and don't trust many of the TV ads that President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have spent more than $300 million to air this year.
That's the basic lesson to be drawn from testing of political ads and interviews of voters conducted here by USA TODAY. The finding raises questions about whether commercials will help persuade still undecided voters in tightly contested states such as Ohio to stay home or vote on Nov. 2.
Key voters in this key state don't like and don't trust many of the TV ads that President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have spent more than $300 million to air this year.
That's the basic lesson to be drawn from testing of political ads and interviews of voters conducted here by USA TODAY. The finding raises questions about whether commercials will help persuade still undecided voters in tightly contested states such as Ohio to stay home or vote on Nov. 2.
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Sep. 27th, 2004 05:20 pm10 Years Ago, I...
1. Had a major depressive episode, with good reason.
2. Was engaged to two people simultaneously for about two months.
3. Identified as polyamorous.
5 Years Ago, I...
1. Was living in Des Moines with friends from college.
2. Had yet to take any illicit substances.
3. Welcomed my Honda del Sol into my life. I miss that car.
3 Years Ago, I...
1. Was evicted, finished my degree, was offered a job, turned down that job, and moved to Iowa City.
2. Remember being woken up at 10:30 one day by my lover's mother telling us that the towers had fallen.
3. Went through a very severe depressive episode.
1 Year Ago, I...
1. Wrote poetry like mad.
2. Found work after nearly 12 months without.
3. Was single for the first time in years, and living in Michigan for the first time in a decade.
So far this year, I've...
1. Bought a car, amazingly.
2. Learned several basic care techniques for computers.
3. Gone through a major reappraisal of my health and priorities.
Yesterday, I...
1. Started my new antidepressant regimen.
2. Called my sister and apologized for not getting together this weekend.
3. Stayed up late thinking about poems.
Today, I...
1. Took a shower on four hours of sleep.
2. Marvelled at the appetite suppression power of Wellbutrin.
3. Was notified I was being let go.
4. Wondered what the universe has in store for me.
Tomorrow, I will...
1. Get up bright and early and start looking for a job.
2. Probably write some poetry, since I'll have the time.
3. Go to my weekly writers' group.
1. Had a major depressive episode, with good reason.
2. Was engaged to two people simultaneously for about two months.
3. Identified as polyamorous.
5 Years Ago, I...
1. Was living in Des Moines with friends from college.
2. Had yet to take any illicit substances.
3. Welcomed my Honda del Sol into my life. I miss that car.
3 Years Ago, I...
1. Was evicted, finished my degree, was offered a job, turned down that job, and moved to Iowa City.
2. Remember being woken up at 10:30 one day by my lover's mother telling us that the towers had fallen.
3. Went through a very severe depressive episode.
1 Year Ago, I...
1. Wrote poetry like mad.
2. Found work after nearly 12 months without.
3. Was single for the first time in years, and living in Michigan for the first time in a decade.
So far this year, I've...
1. Bought a car, amazingly.
2. Learned several basic care techniques for computers.
3. Gone through a major reappraisal of my health and priorities.
Yesterday, I...
1. Started my new antidepressant regimen.
2. Called my sister and apologized for not getting together this weekend.
3. Stayed up late thinking about poems.
Today, I...
1. Took a shower on four hours of sleep.
2. Marvelled at the appetite suppression power of Wellbutrin.
3. Was notified I was being let go.
4. Wondered what the universe has in store for me.
Tomorrow, I will...
1. Get up bright and early and start looking for a job.
2. Probably write some poetry, since I'll have the time.
3. Go to my weekly writers' group.
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Sep. 27th, 2004 10:40 pm'Rape a suitable punishment for mini-skirts'
Bus conductors in Swaziland have vowed to assault and rape female passengers who wear mini-skirts, sparking outrage among women's groups in the conservative African kingdom.
The threat followed this week's arrest of two conductors and a bus driver who were charged with indecently assaulting an 18-year-old high school pupil.
The pupil was attacked at a bus rank in Manzini, Swaziland's commercial centre, by a group of men who shouted at her for wearing a miniskirt, cut it off and then gangraped her, witnesses told local media.
About 1000 women marched on the bus rank on Thursday to protest against the attack.
They were met by bus crews carrying signs reading: "We'll get them with our brushes" - a reference to the reported use of a brush handle in the rape.
A bus conductor calling himself only Licandza said: "Women who wear miniskirts want to be raped, and we will give them what they want."
The bus drivers banned miniskirts on buses earlier in the year, saying they were distracting and encouraged lustful thoughts.
Bus conductors in Swaziland have vowed to assault and rape female passengers who wear mini-skirts, sparking outrage among women's groups in the conservative African kingdom.
The threat followed this week's arrest of two conductors and a bus driver who were charged with indecently assaulting an 18-year-old high school pupil.
The pupil was attacked at a bus rank in Manzini, Swaziland's commercial centre, by a group of men who shouted at her for wearing a miniskirt, cut it off and then gangraped her, witnesses told local media.
About 1000 women marched on the bus rank on Thursday to protest against the attack.
They were met by bus crews carrying signs reading: "We'll get them with our brushes" - a reference to the reported use of a brush handle in the rape.
A bus conductor calling himself only Licandza said: "Women who wear miniskirts want to be raped, and we will give them what they want."
The bus drivers banned miniskirts on buses earlier in the year, saying they were distracting and encouraged lustful thoughts.
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Sep. 27th, 2004 11:44 pmAsteroid Toutatis Makes Closest Pass in 651 Years
An asteroid named for a Celtic god of war will come as close to Earth this week as it has since 1353.
[...] This asteroid makes a roughly four-year trip around the sun that swings from just inside Earth's orbit to outside the orbit of Mars. Because both Earth and Toutatis are in continual motion, the distance between them at closest approach every four years varies greatly.
While not dangerous for now, asteroid Toutatis is incredibly strange. And scientists are quite familiar with it, having bounced radar off the tumbling stone on previous flybys to generate computer renderings of its weird shape and movement.
Toutatis looks something like a dumbbell hurtling awkwardly through space. It has a crazy rotation that makes normal days impossible. Scientists can't explain the shape or the spin, but they're eager to learn more in September when, during the close pass, even backyard skywatchers will be able to spot the asteroid.
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Americans, wake up.
Four hurricanes in Florida, and now we have a cosmic dumbbell named for a god of war taking aim at our planet?
God is trying to tell you something.
More about Toutatis, even what his name means
An asteroid named for a Celtic god of war will come as close to Earth this week as it has since 1353.
[...] This asteroid makes a roughly four-year trip around the sun that swings from just inside Earth's orbit to outside the orbit of Mars. Because both Earth and Toutatis are in continual motion, the distance between them at closest approach every four years varies greatly.
While not dangerous for now, asteroid Toutatis is incredibly strange. And scientists are quite familiar with it, having bounced radar off the tumbling stone on previous flybys to generate computer renderings of its weird shape and movement.
Toutatis looks something like a dumbbell hurtling awkwardly through space. It has a crazy rotation that makes normal days impossible. Scientists can't explain the shape or the spin, but they're eager to learn more in September when, during the close pass, even backyard skywatchers will be able to spot the asteroid.
***
Americans, wake up.
Four hurricanes in Florida, and now we have a cosmic dumbbell named for a god of war taking aim at our planet?
God is trying to tell you something.
More about Toutatis, even what his name means
