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NEWS ABOUT: sympathy

sympathy stories: 4 news summaries

Media Sucked Up to Sanford
to Get Access, Emails Show

News outlets offered aides a 'friendly' ear

Jul 15, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - No surprise that a lot of media outlets tried to butter up Mark Sanford’s aides in order to win interviews with the governor when he was AWOL in Argentina. But their emails, obtained by the State, show the lengths they were willing to go to, some coming about... More »

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ethics • media • South Carolina • press • sympathy • governor • scandal • interview • Mark Sanford • media frenzy

 Stress Pushes 
 Animals to Binge, Too 

House pets feel human worries; lab animals turn to high-fat treats

Oct 17, 08 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Animals get stressed out just like humans, and they even cope anthropomorphically, binging on sweet, fatty foods, LiveScience reports. What’s more, animals can read our misgivings and take on that stress themselves. “The more intelligent an animal is, the more psychological stress it can undergo,” one veterinarian... More »

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rats • stress • monkey • human • sympathy • scientific study • scientific research • animal • brain chemistry

Bush: 4,000 US Lives 'Were Not Lost in Vain'

Prez suffers worse 'burden' than military families, Cheney says

Mar 24, 08 7:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush sympathizes with the families of 4,000 Americans slain in Iraq, he said today. They "were not lost in vain. One day, people will look back at this moment in history and say, 'Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve,'" CNN reports. In an... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • US military • Iraq death toll • sympathy • Iraq war • George W. Bush

OPINION

She Got Out
of Jail Free

Times scribe: Clinton got 'sympathy vote' from women who recognized her vulnerability

Jan 10, 08 2:37 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton had a “horrendous week” in the lead-up to Tuesday's New Hampshire primary—and won not on merit, but on a “sympathy vote” from women who saw themselves in her, exhausted and “overdosed on multitasking.” The New York Times’ Gail Collins argues that women recognized... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • New Hampshire • sympathy • New Hampshire primary • Gail Collins

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