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...uniformed workers Thursday at a food packaging plant, Bush delivered his speech and took questions in his shirtsleeves. It was chilly in Wisconsin but Bush was trying to look a little more informal and accessible. He used to gig Al Gore for fishing around too much in the wardrobe closet, but as he tweaked his own uniform he was also copying Gore in other ways, by showing himself to be a tireless advocate for the working man. Describing the tax advantages that his plan would bring to the Tank family sitting in the front row, Bush grew increasingly animated. "When...
...family transmits itself vertically through time; the sort of great change we have witnessed occurs on the horizontal - a powerful wave moving on a broad front through time and smashing aside all kinds of sustaining or stultifying precedents (Dad in the office, Mom in the kitchen, gays in the closet...) We have abandoned the vertical (back through time) in favor of the headlong horizontal...
...inflated promises, campaigning destroys voter trust. An extended campaign season leaves political reporters with little to write about except the occasional missteps of candidates on the trail and juicy gossip, none of which is really relevant to the issues of governance. The skeleton generally rises out of the closet in the beginning of a campaign--if you think back far enough the public was well aware of Clinton's philandering back before the New Hampshire primary in 1992. The current system leaves the public with a lot of time to forget about these flaws before any meaningful voting actually occurs...
...test their pieces, Chun (known in the group for his "mainstream" sense of humor) said the others locked him in a closet and listen to how many times he chuckles...
World-championship medals aren't enough. For the past three years, Brunet has owned the kayak world, winning eight of the nine gold medals available in K-1, or solo, events. But it's like having a closet full of shoes and nothing to wear. "They're nice, but they're not enough," she says. "I could win 20 times in a row at the worlds, but I need to know I have succeeded in this sport. To really do that, you need to win at the Olympics...