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...twice, Clinton will spend more time highlighting what he has already done than he will trying much that is new. His willingness to use some of the surplus to pay down the debt speaks to a kind of long-term focus that is the luxury of a lame-duck President. The plan for the next two years seems to be, Trumpet the past; give Gore the future...
...Peterman contribution has been more to the culture of fantasy than to clothing. I search for Peterman moments in real life. For example: A foreign correspondent, old Asia hand, Brit I've known for years, has us up to his tiny, steamy Manhattan apartment for dinner. He makes Peking duck, and when he notices an awkward pause in the conversation, pops his head out of the kitchen and begins an anecdote in that fluting voice of his: "You know, once when I was playing fan-tan in Macau...
Naturally, the several school shootings in recent years have propelled safety extremists to new levels of productivity. The Associated Press has reported that "many" schools are supplementing their fire drills with "bullet drills," in which children duck and cover on command. Will this save a single life? Probably not. Will it teach some six-year-olds that the world is a dark and terrible place where gnawing dread is a logical frame of mind? Probably...
Using the mechanism of impeachment to register disgust with the president's actions was grievously wrong. For the lame-duck House Republican leadership of the last Congress to have pushed through these articles--to have turned a crime so low ordinary Americans would never be prosecuted for it into a "high crime" on par with treason--is an abuse of their constitutional power voters should not soon forget...
...week ago, I went fishing with friends in the marshes of Plaquemines Parish near my old hometown of New Orleans. It was the opening of duck-hunting season, and folks were out with their kids for what has become a ritual among many baby-boom parents. I was particularly interested because assistant managing editor Dan Goodgame, who grew up hunting nearby in southern Mississippi, had suggested we do a story on an issue many parents now face: Is hunting a good thing to teach our kids? "People who hunt get something valuable out of it that doesn't translate well...