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ELECTED. MANNY DIAZ, 47, previously obscure lawyer who rose to fame by representing the relatives of temporary Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez--a fact appreciated by many of Miami's 123,000 Cuban Americans, whose votes were decisive; as mayor of Miami...
Observers have been lamenting that had the country only been more alert to world conditions (Islam, Afghanistan, international terrorism) and less enthralled with surface nonsense (O.J., Elian Gonzalez, Monica, Gary Condit), we might have avoided our current troubles. This is to imply that a few canny geopolitical decisions here and there would be all it would take to make America safe and snug...
What's needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury--a ruthless indignation that doesn't leak away in a week or two, wandering off into Prozac-induced forgetfulness or into the next media sensation (O.J.... Elian... Chandra...) or into a corruptly thoughtful relativism (as has happened in the recent past, when, for example, you might hear someone say, "Terrible what he did, of course, but, you know, the Unabomber does have a point, doesn't he, about modern technology...
...without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage. What?s needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury - a ruthless indignation that doesn?t leak away in a week or two, wandering off into Prozac-induced forgetfulness or into the next media sensation (O.J. ... Elian ... Chandra ...) or into a corruptly thoughtful relativism (as has happened in the recent past, when, for example, you might hear someone say, "Terrible what he did, of course, but, you know, the Unabomber does have a point, doesn?t he, about modern technology...
...Mason-Dixon firm, with only 7% undecided. Reno enjoys a reputation as a principled leader who does what she thinks is right. But at the same time she bears the image of an arrogant prosecutor who often made wrong or inept moves in cases like Waco and Elian. "The Republicans will absolutely crucify her with negative ads," says prominent Florida attorney Dexter Douglass, who helped lead Al Gore's Tallahassee legal team during the presidential recount...