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Monday, October 17, 2005 08:04 PM
Original article: Cheers for tears

Crying gets power from rarity

It may be healthier for people to express their emotions, but the honesty and power conveyed by politicians crying was due to its

rarity. If politicians cried every time something emotional happened, people would be as cynical and dismissive of that as they are of normal politician speeches. Those outbursts seemed real because that would normally be suppressed.

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