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...wanted to spoil this party. As Jerry Falwell put it, if delegates would only count their blessings--the platform, the selection of Cheney--and "keep their mouths shut until their guy was in the White House," the infidels would be vanquished. In fact, party activists, once bent on cutting school breakfasts and midnight basketball, actually applauded Powell--who actually wore a white shirt. He chastised those who "miss no opportunity to roundly and loudly condemn affirmative action that helped a few thousand black kids get an education" but hardly utter "a whimper when it's affirmative action for lobbyists...
...Womack has such a hit in I Hope You Dance, which has spent most of the summer as the No. 1 country single. A sort of 12-step program in verse ("Don't let some hell-bent heart leave you bitter/When you come close to selling out, reconsider"), this ballad by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers gets a luscious setting, with Womack crooning it like a lullaby to a sad child. The song is sweet and swell, but it's not all that's special about the Jacksonville, Texas, singer...
...relationship with F.D.R. was typical. He first opposed the Democrat, then supported him (partly owing to F.D.R.'s elaborate and cynical courtship). But when the New Deal began to cut against big financial interests, Hearst accused Roosevelt of being a communist agent. Throughout his career, Hearst bent his media outlets' coverage to suit his political or financial ends...
...Burns series on the Civil War. It was a high point and illustrates the approach to scholarly undertaking that I was bent on defending. It's not a polemic of any kind and it doesn't promote an agenda. It shows the worst part of what we have done to ourselves as Americans and the best part, the loving spirit of people involved in the Civil...
...Lethal Weapon's Danny Glover sat on a bomb-rigged toilet seat. But until now, no one had set a teaser scene in a Nazi death camp, where gaunt Jews trudge to their doom. A boy, torn from his parents, goes into a seizure, and the camp gates are bent open. Aha! So the inmates are miraculously freed? No. It's not about the 6 million. It's about this...