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...spend" liberal of the old school. A top Clinton adviser says the charge is resonating "mildly" and admits it "doesn't much matter" that Bush's ads shamelessly distort the Democrat's proposals. (The latest Republican commercial predicts disastrous tax increases for several average Americans, dubious calculations that senior adviser Charles Black lamely defends as legitimate because the spot claims "only" that such horrors "could" occur, not that they necessarily will.) Bush's team professes delight with Clinton's reflexive counterpunch -- a series of ads that slam the President's fiscal record. "We're already dead meat on the economy...
...they should want, but simply to please & as many as possible as much as possible. Until politicians can supply that sense of mission, their very skills -- such as they are -- will look cheap and cheapening. It is time to rescue the good name of politics, not by renouncing the dubious means that politicians have always used, but by coming up with ends that make the means worth using...
...Dubious Denials. Cornered by the press, the scandal-scarred politician finally deigns to answer the charges against him. Listen to his language carefully, especially for signs of the overly specific denial. "On my word of honor, I never accepted cash or other favors in office" is not a blanket refutation of bribery. Maybe he was handed the money in a hotel room or while he was still a candidate. Denying a "five-year affair" is different from claiming a lifetime of marital fidelity. An advanced gambit is angrily rebutting a charge that was never made. When Richard Nixon claimed...
...interested in discussing the themes of violence and rage in the film, the portrayal of women, the "Artistic" content of the film. Gomez was not. "I'm dubious about projects you hold close to your heart. Spontaneity is very important, you just have to allow accidents to happen...
Richmond wrote a book about his experience and eventually helped launch the first school based entirely on his Microsociety model. After much sniffing and sneering from the local newspaper, which dismissed the idea as "futuristic," "dubious" and "a gimmick," City Magnet School opened in 1981 in a empty library in Lowell, Massachusetts. By 1987 the school's students were testing two years above the national norm in both reading and math. Then in 1990, 13 eighth-graders passed first-year college-level exams, again in reading and math. School attendance hovers around 96%, and during the past six years only...