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That's O.K., he responds. "Forget me; I don't matter." Except that during the interview, he repeatedly undercuts that assertion. He expresses mild resentment about doing all the "drudge work" of creating the Reform Party while others wait to take advantage of his handiwork. And he is openly bitter at personal attacks, like Republican editor William Kristol's suggestion that he is "not an entirely sane individual." Complains Perot: "Rather than solve problems, they want to destroy anybody who gets in their...
...changes. After a bit of confusion over how to pay his taxes and what's considered a gift from a lobbyist, former Speaker of the House Charles Flaherty, a staunch Cambridge Democrat, said he will not run for re-election. In the wake of his departure, there was a bitter battle for Flaherty's position. Through a coalition of moderate Democrats and Republicans Thomas M. Finneran (D-Boston) was able to prevail over a more traditional Democratic with a strong backing...
...Independence will be recalled in Israel a week from tomorrow on Israel's independence day, to mark the re-establishment of the Jewish homeland more than 2,000 years since the expulsion of the Jews from their home. Sadly, the recent events in northern Israel are bitter testimony that the Jews are still, in spite of the experiences of several millenia of persecution, denied that basic tenet of freedom and self-expression afforded humanity--the right to exist...
...next year. First there are the months of pretrial motions. Depending on whether it's your side that makes them or theirs, the motions are either essential preliminaries or cynical delaying tactics. But as the nation marks the first anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the locus of that bitter and confounding episode is shifting to the eventual trial scene in Denver. Since federal courts don't ordinarily permit cameras, some families of the victims who won't be making the almost 600-mile trip from Oklahoma City are petitioning for special closed-circuit coverage. The defendants, Timothy McVeigh...
...huge price to be paid for that. The challenge of the Enlightenment has always been, 'Oh, we know what Jesus was, and it shows Christianity was a mistake.' I'm trying to say, It's hard work, but if you stick with the historical enterprise to the bitter end, not only can you preach from it, but it's more powerful than what the Fundamentalists or the liberal reductionists offer...