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The adulation that journalists showered on Castro and Marcos and Hafez al-Assad passed Pol Pot by.
Meanwhile, the adulation feeds a sense of invincibility--especially if the athlete already happens to suffer from manic depression.
And yet (no doubt largely because congressional Republicans were overplaying their hand), the public gave Clinton more support than had ever been enjoyed by Richard Nixon (personal best: 67 percent) or even Ronald Reagan (personal best: 68 percent--mass adulation of Ronald Reagan being a largely retrospective phenomenon).
My irritation with the adulation of Big Names does not arise from my lack of fame, or from my working at a small university (which gives me freedom from "publish or perish": I can write what and when I like, rather than having to "crank it out").
All the incentives for antitrust enforcers--media adulation, professional recognition, and congressional budgetary rewards--push the government toward "bagging the biggest game."