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...search for historic analogies to the Perot phenomenon, Truman's name is often cited, sometimes by Perot himself. On the surface, the comparison makes sense. Both men were feisty bantams, unvarnished, blunt and unplagued by the shadows that afflict the excessively reflective. But there is, in fact, a fundamental difference: unlike the computocratic uncandidate, Harry Truman was an unabashed politician, one who relished all the trappings, from honest patronage to whistle-stop campaigning. A doggedly unsuccessful dirt farmer and failed haberdasher, he entered politics out of need for a job and rose from the county courthouse to the Senate clubhouse...
...moral flatness of button-pushing sensation, the truck-driver video accomplished the amazing task of nullifying the Rodney King video. The dumb, blunt message of the Rodney King video was: white cops are monsters beating defenseless blacks. The bottom-feeders' message of the truck-driver video was that blacks are savage, racist animals who would beat a man virtually to death because he is white. On that level of discourse, if Americans choose to stay there, there can only be a gridlock of rage: blacks make demons of whites, whites make demons of blacks...
...current one. While the Date Rape Task Force did wish to have an even broader definition of rape, one in which any sexual encounter that did not have explicit consent of both parties would constitute rape, this definition was deemed too strict to be feasibly instituted. To be politically blunt, such a definition would never have passed the UC full council...
...German inclination is to savor success without dwelling on the past. Kohl, whose physical bulk and blunt manner seem to personify the big new Germany, called the Yugoslavia decision "a success for German foreign policy." Genscher flatly said, "We were right!" For their part, Germans feel frustrated when they are criticized for doing things that would seem benign if done by virtually any other country. It is time, say many Germans, to reap the benefits of 45 years of good conduct. What they want is responsibility commensurate with duty. "When it comes to paying, everybody says, 'Germans to the front...
...patients with certain chronic or terminal diseases, a marijuana cigarette can blunt the side effects of radical treatments. Advocates of alternative medicine claim, for example, that the drug helps cancer patients endure chemotherapy, comforts AIDS victims and eases eye pressure for those who suffer from glaucoma. Last week, however, the U.S. Public Health Service said it will no longer condone cannabis therapy because of the fear that the practice could harm people with weak immune systems. The Federal Government currently allows 13 people to use the drug legally, and had approved the treatment for 28 others. Under the ruling, those...