Time magazine, which treated Reagan generously during his first year, ran a cover story in Dec. calling into question his grasp of the job.
(It's a mystery as to why more psychoanalysts are not good at this, when offering interpretations in language even children can grasp is their job. But putting such deeply private material in a book for a general audience is ethically tricky and puts others off: even with identities disguised, Grosz's patients must know who they are).
But four years into her tenure at the top, she still seems to be struggling to get a grasp on a huge job at a company whose journalism has at times altered the course of a nation.
So Ed Miliband could have had no illusions about the magnitude of the task he was taking on when he elbowed his brother aside to grasp the most thankless job in British politics.
Newly minted editors like Huffington, Blodget, Denton, and Peretti, seemed to more easily grasp that the real job of journalism is to find a form that fits the financial limitation of the medium, however low.
For weeks, Mr. Romney has been forced to argue the kind of hypothetical case that is often difficult for voters to grasp: that the positive job growth in recent months would have been even better if someone other than Mr. Obama was in office.
"This is something that's particularly hard to grasp for professionals whose jobs require incessant writing, like academics, journalists, lawyers or marketers.
President Obama's hair may not be on fire, but it's definitely smoking; clearly and gratifyingly, he does grasp how desperate the jobs situation is.
The past decade has seen millions of people lose their jobs and grasp at social services to maintain their health and the health of their family, especially in 2009.
But it has taken Western governments too long to grasp the seriousness of their jobs problem.
