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...Congressperson who wants to be re-elected follows the polls. Except when serious campaign money is involved, and then he or she generally follows the money. (Do you think the average Congressperson really believes 18-year-olds must have the "right" to buy handguns with silencers and armor-piercing bullets?) So if Lee Iacocca, who's joined the NAFTA push, can just get those poll numbers up -- and happily, they're rising -- then the Congresspersons will be able to vote yea. To many of them, this will be a relief...
Revelations that his administration turned down requests for heavy armor that could have backed up American troops in Somalia reflect his failure. His reproach of Europe was an intentional distraction from his own shortcomings...
...firmed up at two more meetings. During the third, which did not include Clinton and lasted six hours before breaking up at 1:30 a.m. Thursday, word of the mortar attack and an additional American death at Mogadishu airport arrived. Clinton decided the next morning to send more armor with the reinforcements heading for Somalia...
...very easy to lose count as simply as that. But the failure of common sense is absolutely weird in its stupidity. Any good journalist who'd been living in Moscow in the later years of Brezhnev would know that nothing worked anymore. The knight was dying inside his armor, and somehow that human perception never made itself felt in intelligence analyses...
...humor that I cherish," Rudnick says. "It's a form of gay soul. I hate people who imagine it's simply bitchiness or some sort of ghetto response to intolerance. Nah, it's much bigger than that, and much more fun." It also provides gays with perhaps their sturdiest armor against the gay holocaust. And it is this strength Jeffrey so smartly taps. Most plays about AIDS, including this year's Pulitzer prizewinner Angels in America, send the disease's victims raging or nobly wasting away into the bleak night. They can play Lear or Camille, but they...