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Because this year, young America cannot afford to throw its hands up in disgust; this year, young America cannot afford to give up on our political system; this year, young America cannot afford to abandon the political debate that is about to take place--because if it does, it will find itself severely punished with suffocating taxes, a much lower standard of living and exacerbated social problems in the 21st century...
GINGRICH MAY BE A THRILLING PERSONality for journalists, but he doesn't deserve the honor. The world views the current budget debate in Congress with disgust. Priorities and personal ambitions are clashing in a troublesome turmoil, and the losers will be the elderly, the sick and the poor. The leaders of Congress--specifically Gingrich--should remember their responsibilities and set a good example. CHRISTOPH BUXTORF Basel, Switzerland...
...buses, cranky trains and (once) a luxury cruise ship larded with rich Americans. Fans of previous Theroux travelogs like The Happy Isles of Oceania will relish some familiar ingredients. There is, for starters, his dazzling prose, which in a flick of a paragraph can shift from lowly growls of disgust to images of seascape with the allusive force of poetry...
This has helped foster an important change from TV's early days, when series characters were largely static from episode to episode, season to season. There was little shading or evolution in Darrin Stephens' nincompoopcy. And Joe Friday--not counting the occasional expression of disgust with punks and hippies--was a tragically repressed emotional cipher (which isn't to say audiences would have wanted to see Jack Webb really air it out as an actor). In essence, TV's early characters were subjected to the same drama every week, as if they were stuck in a time warp. Would Darrin...
Although some audience members showed continued disgust with the speakers' defense of an all-male march and rushed to argue with West after the formal discussion had ended, most audience members applauded the speakers' statements...