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...With HNMUN, Lee says he hoped he would experience something akin to an actual UN conference...
...tell" policy. But it set alarm bells ringing in military circles, as a number of former commanders rushed critical comments into print. Elsewhere in the debate, the candidates sparred testily on health care, campaign finance and their respective voting records, in a tone of civility akin to the cursory touching of gloves required of boxers entering their final round - and sometimes with all the trash-talking of a prefight media conference: Bradley, commenting on Gore's appeal to New Hampshire voters to vote against the current favorite, sneered, "Your come-from-behind underdog speech brings tears to my eyes." Gore...
...chairmen may once have been tied to the political orientation of the presidents who appointed them, but Greenspan's legendary success in dealing with crises ranging from the 1987 Wall Street crash to the fallout from the 1998-99 Asian financial crisis has made the position more akin to the military's top brass - a nonpartisan, continuous presence as presidential administrations come and go. Although Al Gore, like most other presidential candidates, warmly applauded the appointment, he may have the most to lose if Greenspan does slow the economy. (George Bush Sr. is reported to believe that he lost...
...Australian-born Hansen, the gamine, androgynous face behind Stereolab's characteristically sultry French vocals. (She's possibly the only person in music today who can make a complaint about faulty sound systems sexy: "Does anyone else hear that rumble?") Her look-but-don't-touch attitude makes her akin to the too-hip aunt of Bjork and Winona Ryder, a coy mistress of equally playful music...
...That's like saying you have a product called TIME magazine, but one distributor gets to rip out ads, and another one rips out some articles and puts in new ones." Gates' logic in this case is faulty because of the metaphor he selected. The Windows operating system is akin to the printing press rather than to TIME magazine. How would TIME feel if there were one company that held a monopoly on the manufacture of printing presses, and that company felt it had a right to dictate what could and could not be printed on all "its" presses? Clearly...