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...when and how. Pressure on the streets may grow for the president?s immediate resignation, but right now there?s considerable uncertainty over how any transition would be managed. And that means Peru could be heading into a political vacuum - something nature, and the military, tends to abhor...
...Clown Posse, the book proposed to turn the tables on President Clinton's impeachment accusers, from Ken Starr and his staff to several anti-Clinton journalists, by exposing their secrets. The results, though, appear to exemplify the politics of personal destruction that Clinton's defenders have long claimed to abhor...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...some of which is paid out to political groups. The suit was brought by a group of conservative Christian students at the University of Wisconsin who found it downright un-American that they were forced to pay an annual $331 student activity fee that empowers some causes they abhor, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Campus Center and the Students of National Organization for Women (which supports abortion rights). The students' lawyers likened the fee to the "compelled speech" the Court outlawed last year in a ruling that banned labor unions from requiring fees for their PACs. But this was different...
...politics and media abhor a vacuum. Presidential candidates always pass through a series of metamorphoses (Bush and Gore have both been through two or three already). The Gore-Bush race may become, in its own way, riveting. We live in hope...