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...often bemused attitude toward Bush. He struck back when the President again attacked his patriotism, cleverly invoking Bush's father's famous castigation of Joseph McCarthy. Clinton, in an attempt to humanize himself, invoked almost every member of his family, both living and dead -- his recovering drug-addict brother who "is alive today because of the criminal-justice system"; his widowed mother, a paragon of family values even as a single parent; his "heart-of-gold" grandfather, who taught him to hate segregation; his daughter, just for being alive; and his wife because it was their 17th anniversary. (Ronald Reagan...
...months didn't feel pain and those just above that age didn't experience much discomfort. Both ideas are now discredited. Nonetheless, cautions Bruce J. Masek, head of behavioral medicine at Children's Hospital in Boston, "society is still hysterical about making a four-year-old a heroin addict...
...white stripes Personal References Mentions Barbara twice, admits that divorce happens even in his own family. Didn't mention anyone in his family. "I was born to a widowed mother..." "I grew up in the segregated South..." "Tonight is my 17th wedding anniversary..." "My brother is a recovering drug addict..." Gaffes . Calls AIDS a "behavioral problem" . "I'm very disappointed in Magic" . Mispronounces Sarajevo . Outlines 90-day legislative blitz for first days in office that begins Nov. 4--three months before he would take office. . Obvious loss of voice . Doesn't attempt even one joke. Stock Phrases...
...Addiction is the operative metaphor here. Obviously, money spent on the military, as much as $10 trillion over the duration of the cold war, was money not spent on developing new technologies for consumer use, on retraining workers for domestic production or on social-welfare programs to ease the plight of the dislocated and unemployed. So what is to be done with 3 million workers in the military industry and nothing but a pinched, depleted domestic economy awaiting them? Just one more fix, is the addict's witless, blubbering solution -- one more useless, death-dealing, high...
Because of these difficulties, "fetus abuse" is not a viable legal concept. But this doesn't mean that children born with a parent like the Hartford cocaine addict must be left at the mercy of their dysfunctional families forever. If a pregnant woman is observed shooting up in the delivery room (or some such egregious action), her name can surely be referred to social workers who will check in on the family after the child is born and see if the parents are still incompetent. Sadly, they will generally find enough grounds to remove the child anyway...