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...consider myself a feminist, which means that I support increased funding for breast-cancer research, cheer at Allison Janney's breakthrough performance on TV's The West Wing and don't mind mentioning that I periodically trounce every male of my acquaintance with the temerity to think he can beat me at the basketball game Pop-a-Shot. So what if I have not one but two scars on my right hand from baking corn bread, or if since I bought that yellow paint, I preside over the most cheerful dang kitchen in the tri-state area...
...woman only to discover that the sobbing passenger was in a joyful sorrow--apparently his music had brought back memories of her deceased husband. Wright was equally moved by the fact that "people can be that open." Wright performs for such moments, he explains. "I try to cheer people up, and sometimes I get verbal, telling people to keep a song in their hearts and a smile on their faces. That's a combination for a perfect...
...before I knew that legendary director John Frankenheimer (Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) was at the helm. Given all that, wouldn't you agree that it was an honest reaction? Wouldn't you expect Reindeer Games to be a light-hearted story, filled to the brim with good will and holiday cheer...
Swaggering past the death house still works in Texas, where crowds gather outside the Huntsville death chamber to cheer on the executioner. But lately more Americans, including some Republicans, are questioning how just the practice is. Governor George Ryan of Illinois, a conservative Republican, halted all executions in his state on Jan. 31, after concluding the system was "fraught with error." Thirteen people scheduled for death in Illinois had been exonerated. Three of them were freed after a journalism class at Northwestern University proved someone else had committed the crimes. One of the three came within two days of dying...
This rhetorically extravagant message of a country hijacked by nameless forces of evil ("special interests") may seem far-fetched, especially in a time of such happiness and plenty. McCain's genius has been to understand that it is precisely this affluence and good cheer that make genuine ideas irrelevant. As the American economy churns and rumbles and sprays money this way and that, a message of ideological consistency would seem like mere pedantry. Reform, on the other hand, is a rubric under which people can toss all their small residual grievances, their nagging unsatisfied wants, whatever they are. Medicare...