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...Many Arab countries feel that the attacks will cause needless suffering to an already impoverished Iraqi population. Others, like Toujan Faisal, a Jordanian member of parliament, view the U.S. strike in the context of President Clinton's re-election campaign. "It is a petty election game between Clinton and Dole," he said. "They are like kids, only they are playing with fire."--Lamia Abu-Haidar
...President's speechwriters were dumbstruck by the Bob Dole that emerged at the Republican Convention. Here was a man who had never in his life successfully mated subject to verb rolling out sonorous subclauses! When the speechwriters realized that the brilliant acceptance speech had been crafted by novelist Mark Helprin, an actual writer of poetical prose, they began to search their brains for suitable ghostwriters for Clinton: Stephen King, perhaps, on welfare reform, Michael Crichton to explain the health system...
...retro, was the general feeling, and possibly subject to unflattering misconstruals. Dole had used a contemporary writer whose best-known book, A Soldier of the Great War, featured much manly adventure, so Clinton could match him with Raymond Chandler's offering...
...Imitation is much maligned by those who, seeing no virtue in duplication, are disposed to think that one is a sufficient quantity for any entity, Republican presidential candidates included. But if there were only one Bob Dole, voting would be a fretful, time-consuming enterprise, requiring an investment of study and careful deliberation that lies well beyond the average citizen's means. So while my opponent promises to cut taxes, I promise to cut--nay, swiftly and thoroughly eliminate--all those subtle distinctions between the political parties which have so vexed the electorate to date. (In addition, of course...
Which leaves the question of whether reporters in Chicago this week will be bumping into a Dole look-alike or into some real Republican who didn't have a lock of hair falling over his forehead in the first place. Or will they have to content themselves with an enigmatic man dressed in a bumblebee suit...