Word: cabinent
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...that special transaction between candidates and voters, Gore's currency is the language of self-discovery. The myth of the log cabin has been replaced by another image of adversity -- the dysfunctional family. Few politicians represent that shift better than Al Gore, who through his own psychic battles has found not only his voice but a vocabulary that borrows heavily from therapyspeak. But, says Gore, "if the language I use or the ideas that I discuss are a little bit out in front of what the conventional political wisdom says, I don't care." It's not that Gore...
...misses the point to say that Murphy Brown is not a real character. Fiction is real enough in its powers. When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, he said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war." That, at least, is the legend. Little Eva perhaps belongs to a higher order of symbolism than Murphy Brown's baby, but the simple principle, the power of stories, remains the same...
Despite a vow that he would never surrender, white supremacist Randy Weaver quit his mountain cabin in northern Idaho, ending an 11-day siege that resulted in the deaths of his wife Vicki, his son Samuel and a deputy U.S. marshal, William Degan. Weaver's defiance began in January 1991, when he failed to appear in court on charges of selling two shotguns to an undercover agent. Nineteen months later, those charges have at least one additional count: assaulting a federal officer. Gerry Spence, who represented former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, will defend Weaver...
...Idaho white separatist Randy Weaver seemed willing to die for his piece of land too, as he holed up in his cabin near the hamlet of Naples, surrounded by FBI agents, federal marshals and local police officers. Authorities put his mountaintop redoubt under surveillance after he failed to appear for a February 1991 trial on charges of selling two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent. Two weeks ago, Weaver's 13-year-old son Samuel and federal marshal William Degan were killed in a gun battle as lawmen approached the cabin. Prosecutors charged Weaver's comrade Kevin Harris...
Weaver, 44, has ties to the racist Aryan Nations sect based in Hayden Lake, 60 miles to the south. Some neighbors, saying Weaver simply wants the government to leave him alone, brought food and mail to the cabin after Weaver retreated there last year. After the shoot-out, as officers cordoned off the mountain, local sympathizers shouted obscenities at police manning the roadblock and vowed, "We'll get you!" At week's end Weaver, his remaining three children and Harris continued to hunker down as lawmen used loudspeakers to broadcast appeals from family members and friends urging the outlaw...