Word: comforting
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...longer content with peddling his noxious racial message in the U.S., Farrakhan has been on a tour of African and Middle Eastern dictatorships, providing aid and comfort to despots whose human-rights abuses and support for terrorism have earned opprobrium around the world. The purpose of his junket, Farrakhan explains, is to discover for himself whether reports in the Western press about totalitarian conditions in these benighted countries are true. His conclusion: oppressing Third World people is O.K. with me unless the oppressors happen to be white, like South Africa's former rulers...
...punishment for letting women practice law. But that spontaneity had leached from Clinton by the time she wrote It Takes a Village, a programmatic tome. It is nonetheless moving briskly at $20, a fairly inexpensive way to give a vote of confidence. It must be small comfort to Hillary in month seven of the Whitewater hearings that her nemesis, Senator Alfonse D'Amato, is headed for the remainder table rather than the best-seller list with his new book, Power, Pasta and Politics...
...just because his wealth gives him running room. By targeting the messenger, Dole is threatening to sink the message, which is getting him into trouble with others who share Forbes' supply-side devotion. Jack Kemp, aware of how Dole lusts for his endorsement, weighed in with aid and comfort to Forbes. "In the great tradition of President Reagan, especially during his birthday week, I strongly urge all Republicans seeking the presidential nomination to speak no ill of thy fellow Republican's efforts to reform the tax code," he said last week...
Dole might take some comfort from the fact that this whole fight is making his party uncomfortable. The more threatening Forbes seems, particularly to devout pro-lifers, the more likely they will be to choose a pragmatist like Dole over a purist like Buchanan. Likewise, the more ground Buchanan gains with his anti-NAFTA, anti-Big Business salvos, the more willing traditional G.O.P. allies will be to send Dole their cash and their votes. And because he is being besieged from right and left, Dole may no longer have to blow away the competition to triumph in the devilish expectations...
Despite the emerging controversy, Buchanan was still able to deliver his message and effectively comfort his opponents on the issues, according to fellow conservative commentator Robert Novak, who observed the debate, held at the WMUR television studios...