Word: decentering
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...important part of Clinton's promise lies in his ability to build a political coalition. While it's become fashionable to trash politics and politicians, we shouldn't forget that these are the vital means to our ends. Dukakis may have made a decent president, but we'll never know because he was an atrocious politician, uncomfortable in any matters that dealt with his own character...
...beloved daughter reacts to her parents' split by dropping out of college to live with a raving-mad private-property fanatic older than her father. Frank's secretary quits. The price of cattle drops, just when he has a thousand head to sell. The hero, who is a decent enough fellow, just insensitive to women's needs, egomaniacal, undeserving and stuffed with the usual macho baloney, watches all this wonderingly but without resentment...
What is comes down to is this: I didn't enjoy Ben, but that won't change anything in the world. The lights came up, the audience applauded enthusiastically, and Ben's brief life was over. It had decent acting and cool posters. Now there will be other plays, some, no doubt, by Jon Dorf. Time marches...
...Tyson who "threatened" new hires into signing the petition. In a stinging 44-page decision, Judge Wallace Nations concluded that the company's main witnesses were "not credible." Tyson has appealed the decision. "The union is the only hope these people have of achieving any dignity and a decent wage," argues Bill Burns, an official with the United Food and Commercial Workers. "Just try to raise a family on $6.25 an hour. It's impossible...
...Republicans, including the President, are already back in the gutter, but Bush should salvage his dignity by stepping away. It is still within the President's power to write his own epitaph as a decent man who tried his best, a legacy he could squander if he continues the mudslinging when all is lost...