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...running in early July, citing family considerations. And he kept coming back to the safest option--a seasoned Washington insider who would please the party faithful and whose fealty to the Bush family had been tested. "Loyalty," a senior Bush adviser intoned two weeks ago, "is the top criterion...
...will we know if the high-stakes, roll-of-the-dice Israeli-Palestinian summit called by President Clinton has succeeded? There is only one criterion for success: finality. Whatever document emerges, it must contain words like these: "The parties agree that the century-old conflict between the Jews and Arabs of Palestine is over...
...that last criterion that stymied the Sony. Its external speakers, even when turned up full blast, weren't loud enough to compete with the ambient noise of my station wagon, three Quittner girls and Otto, the brown dog. The Aiwa, on the other hand, could easily be heard by my kidlings in the back seat of the car. While the sound quality of the Sony's external-speaker system is way better than the Aiwa's for, say, sitting quietly and alone on your bed, it's too mellow for car trips and howling Quittners...
...says. He was there for what he considered a crucial battle. The Convention spent very little time debating its prohibition on women pastors--there are only 35 in the country anyway--but labored over a proposal to delete a sentence in the denomination's guiding document stating that "the criterion by which the Bible is to be interpreted is Jesus Christ," replacing it with language suggesting that Scripture, as God's direct revelation, must be regarded as the ultimate authority...
...Presidential Debate Commission's rules state that a candidate must register at least 15 percent in the opinion polls in order to join the debates. I suppose the commission needs a criterion, some qualifying poll percentage. Otherwise, how could they exclude, say, the Ovolactarian Party's candidate from the debates? But I devoutly hope that both Nader and Buchanan make it to the finals...