The military's tipping point.(FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF)(Editorial)

From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine) | Date: February 14, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

For Christmas a family member gave me a copy of Malcolm

Gladwell's 2000 book The Tipping Point, knowing that I admired Gladwell's reporting for The New Yorker magazine. (Gladwell cut his journalistic teeth covering the AIDS epidemic for The Washington Post in the late 1980s.) The Tipping Point looks at how something that only a few people are thinking about one day--say, the iPod, or "dignity and respect" for gay people, or Brokeback Mountain--suddenly morphs into something it seems that everyone is embracing. Change, he writes, often occurs like an epidemic: simmering away for months ...

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