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...years in the 1970s. It's a different kind of bossiness--more an insistence that you see reason and therefore give up all frivolous pleasures in life and less a brutal demand that you bend to his will. But I have seen Nader convince a roomful of young adults, albeit briefly in most cases, that they want to dedicate their lives to irritating others for the general good. Whereas Buchanan's general approach is to aggravate the irritations you are feeling about others...
That other brand name may be the key. Dropping the Firestone name altogether would be the most drastic measure, but many observers think it is the only viable way to keep the company's beachhead in the U.S. Bridgestone has an established, albeit smaller, place in the North American market as a high-end, premium tire brand, and most consumers don't seem to think of it as falling from the same rubber tree. "Probably the best thing Bridgestone can do with the Firestone name is put it under a rock and forget about it," says Art Spinella, who runs...
...looked like a draw, albeit a bloody one. Even as the credits rolled and the candidates headed off to their corners - they probably needed a nice stiff drink - there was some lingering tension over Lazio's forceful proffer of the soft-money ban, and even the unflappable Russert looked slightly befuddled...
...hard to predict whether another toothless, albeit public, scolding will effect much of a response from the IOC, which has proved itself one of the world's most inept bureaucracies. The White House report advocates sweeping modifications: Creating an objective drug policy administrator, comprehensive out-of-competition testing, new labeling for dietary supplements and intensive international research. But when the starting whistle blows, neither the White House nor the IOC will be making the final call: Instead, the fans will ultimately decide (via their spending choices and their viewership) what kind of Games they want to see: Cleaner, Kinder, Slower...
...some view her support for a Palestinian state as a serious threat to Israeli security, and others were horrified by her apparently chummy relationship with Mrs. Arafat, as evidenced by the exchange of a warm buss during a diplomatic visit. Clinton has also been hurt by a recent inflammatory (albeit widely repudiated) account of a livid Hillary hurling anti-Semitic slurs during a dark moment in one of her husband's campaigns...