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...comprehends, those qualities were not on display in his presidential campaign. It was a frenzy of photo ops and criss-crossing messages, driven by the news cycle and the demands of interest groups. He pandered to South Florida by backing a bill to make Elian Gonzalez a permanent U.S. resident, and he quit talking about the environment when pollsters and consultants told him it could hurt him. Each week seemed to bring a new policy pronouncement, another gimmick to jump-start the campaign, which is why even his evolving wardrobe became a metaphor for a man who had no idea...
...Fred Moffat, 17, holds a sign that says, "That's not a woman, it's a man, baby!" His friends are equally passionate in their anti-Reno sentiments, except possibly the one with a sign that says, "Honk if you like cookies." "I've hated her ever since the Elian case," says Moffat, who skateboarded here. "But I think it's good she can poke fun at herself. The SNL thing was hilarious." Dancing, especially really bad dancing, really does bring the world together...
...After enduring an intercontinental custody struggle matching that of Elian Gonzalez, four-year-old Phanupong ("Got") Khaisri finally has parents he can call his own. Two years ago, the Thai toddler made headlines when it was discovered his junkie prostitute mother had rented him to smugglers for $250. The smugglers, who used Got as a human prop so they could pass through customs as a vacationing family, were busted in Los Angeles, and Got?abused and hiv-positive?was eventually placed with an American family. Got dodged immediate deportation when a U.S. judge refused to send him back, controversially calling...
...impact in Cuba. After all, the state propaganda machine in Havana will have little trouble packaging whatever denunciations President Bush utters in Miami next week - they'll simply be cited as further evidence of the "external threat" that Castro uses to rally Cubans, much as he did during the Elian Gonzales saga. But how that same propaganda machine will deal with a live broadcast of Jimmy Carter extending a hand of friendship at the same time as urging Cuba to embrace freedom and democracy remains to be seen...
...Peshawar-based Frontier Post, whose op-ed pages are more commonly filled with denunciations of America's campaign in Afghanistan, carried a piece by conservative American columnist Anne Coulter expressing the hope that "the government will deal with California Talibanist John Walker as harshly as it did with Elian Gonzalez...