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...would they cooperate with him? Gore is so familiar to Republican leaders that their contempt would be hard to contain; only the fear that voters would see them as enemies of progress might keep them from total war. "Whether Republicans cooperated with Al Gore would depend on which Al Gore showed up," says a Republican strategist with close ties to the party leadership. "Would it be the moderate New Democrat or the enviro-liberal? If it's the latter, he'd have real problems. Hell, he'd have real problems no matter what...
...Milosevic is never sent to the Hague to be tried as a war criminal, your cover photograph will stand as a permanent symbol of contempt for this inhuman monster. Brilliant! ROY ADAMS Upper Marlboro...
...sign a paper saying "It's over." He is a deer caught in the headlights, who gets hysterical and indecisive in the clutch, as earlier negotiations have sometimes shown. More practically, he realized how cut off from the peace process many Palestinians had grown, holding it in horror or contempt or deepest skepticism. Or Arafat may simply have arrived at a chilling truth that day: that Palestinians and Israelis can never reconcile their competing claims to Jerusalem. Symbols as potent as the Holy City could not be fairly divided. Arafat's no was an assertion, says an Israeli official, "that...
...clueless TV commentator filling time with proctologist jokes, making awful wordplays when the Shih Tzu appears. He's the outsider trying fecklessly to gain a purchase on a closed world. He is also, one suspects, one of Guest's inner voices, an assertion of the reality principle saved from contempt by its self-satirizing edge...
...condemns whites for manufacturing the old image of the shiftless, larcenous Negro and for still seeing blacks through that warped prism. He also chastises blacks for inhabiting restrictive new and polar-opposite categories: the gangsta and the Buppie. Satire typically proceeds from two impulses: rage at the powerful and contempt for the masses. Lee has both...