Word: explainer
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GINGRICH HAS SPENT HIS LIFE--not just his adult life, but his entire life since grade school--believing that destiny had saved a seat for him. To explain why an unlikable man could carry out such an unlikely ambition, it helps to understand some skills and obsessions that were planted very early. They had a long time to ripen...
...dead and struck back with a lethal message. The Medicare rescue, they charged, was actually just a way to give a tax break to the rich by robbing from the old. Gingrich had known all along that $245 billion in tax cuts over seven years would be hard to explain and easy to attack. But he didn't think he had any choice. "The tax cut is the glue that holds together the coalition that balances the budget," he explained later...
...next to a building busy with the early-morning comings and goings of innocent people? Federal investigators and journalists quickly began digging into McVeigh's past, looking for pieces of the appalling Oklahoma City puzzle. Not surprisingly, the fragments did not fit together in a way that would convincingly explain a monstrous deed...
...attract about one-fifth of that constituency, which he believes will be enough to give Dole 40% of the overall vote, a knockout blow. That's the chief reason Dole attacks what he believes are "Hollywood's nightmares of depravity" whenever he visits the state. And it helps explain why Dole's new 30-second television ad, which promises tax cuts worth "$330 million for Iowa families," touts a "conservative agenda for change." Last week Dole burnished his conservative credentials by signing up Marlene Elwell, a Buchanan organizer, as his Iowa field director...
CREATIONISTS ARE BOUND TO GLOAT OVER the inability of evolutionary scientists to explain everything definitively. But science is only an honest attempt by reasoning people to find out what is going on; it inevitably requires the changing of an open mind as new evidence comes to light. Faith, on the other hand, is the blind acceptance of "explanations" without any hard evidence. It is preposterous for a closed-minded adherent of a prepackaged, supernatural "origin of species" theory to flaunt science's admitted lack of omniscience as support for a totally irrational dogma. ROBERT L. WOLKE Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...