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...reports on those of the permanent research "staff" (an assiduous and humorous pair of recent graduates from Fordham and Amherst), I've found questions quite similar to those I've proposed creeping into the interviews. Somehow, that's very rewarding. Still, each day I am struck by the seemingly absurd variety of my assignments--one minute I'll be asked to elucidate the political philosophy of Michael J. Sandel, the next minute, to alphabetize magazines. Comparing notes with both high school and college friends, however, it seems I'm not alone...
Life after sainthood can be trying, if not bizarre. Consider the case of scruffy humanitarian BOB GELDOF. Not so long ago, he was beating big odds and bigger egos to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief. Now he's just another celebrity with an absurd divorce settlement. PAULA YATES, Geldof's flamboyant wife of 10 years and the mother of his three children, is pregnant with the child of Michael Hutchence, lead singer of INXS. After bitter feuds over who would get what, it was decided that for now Yates would move back into Geldof's home and Geldof into...
...depicted as the Democrat Who Tells the Truth, in implicit contrast to the fellow in the White House, the Democrat Who Doesn't. Kerrey seems resigned to his relationship with Clinton, almost saddened by it. "There is the perception that I'm competing with Bill Clinton, and that's absurd," he says. "I've sometimes made mistakes about what I've said, but I'm not competing with Bill Clinton, I am competing with his ideas...
...politics and trash-talk campaign advertisements to be the focus of the evening news. When the candidates discuss "issues," the issues they discuss are marginal to the true concerns of the public. America desires an improved quality of life that it cannot have while being daily inundated with the absurd "infotainment" thrust into its citizens' homes. Children grow up literally addicted to television and to the self-debasing consumerism fostered by the media trusts. Our future is threatened as much by NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN as it is by MTV, itself the child of media giant Viacom...
...leaders our party has ever had." At a May Day rally in Moscow, the heads of various nationalist movements praised Zyuganov as someone who shares their anti-Western, often anti-Semitic beliefs. In St. Petersburg, a man introduced himself as a member of Monarchists for Zyuganov, a contradiction so absurd even the usually dour candidate had to laugh...