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...maintained a nearly unbroken lead for more than a year, even though more people agreed with the other guy's positions. He took on the suicide wing of his party, which would rather be right than win, and made them roll over and play dead, threw the invisibility cloak over the congressional wing of his party and made them disappear. Stripped of every winning Republican issue--the cold war, crime, the economy--he proceeded to run on Democratic ones--education, health care, Social Security. Lampooned as a feckless frat boy, he ran a more disciplined race than we have seen...
...children." And these days, post-Columbine and Eminem, the popular culture seems to have become the principle "enemy-of-the-children," with everyone from Lynne Cheney to our would-be moralist-in-chief, Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, inveighing against the filth and obscenity peddled to America under the cloak of "free speech" and "artistic expression." This rhetoric, self-serving though it may be, is at least a sign that America still possesses the capacity for outrage. And outrage is an appropriate response to the brutal misogyny of Slim Shady--or the John Rocker-esque "songs" off Sixers star Allen...
...nation of warheads and missiles as opposed to a nation of people, is to foster the kind of moral ambivalence for which the United States has consistently garnered a disreputable image abroad. It is to allow Americans to sit in an ivory tower, wrapped in a tightly woven cloak of arrogance and ignorance, that prevents and excuses them from showing any genuine interest in lives of those individuals living outside the hallowed border of our state. And it is to give breath to the hypocritical philosophy that American interests in equality and rightness end at the fault line between...
...voters - but this fall, the tenor of the groundwork has changed. Instead of facing one another three times over the familiar lecterns, checked by traditional time limits and rebuttal constraints, the candidates will be challenged by three different formats, where they'll endeavor to showcase their respective strengths - and cloak their weaknesses...
...later years, when his genius had pried him from anonymity, Guinness played all manner of historical celebrities, from Marcus Aurelius to Pope Innocent III, Hitler to Freud. By then, his eminence had become a cloak that he wore with cool majesty. It was like his "mischievous dolphin smile that spreads and flits away" (John le Carre's words). That smile was tight, wary and tinged with a seer's sadness; it invited affection but repelled intimacy. Emerging from a Guinness film, spectators wondered, "Who was that unmasked...