Word: explains
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...anyone explain the mystery of Bob Dole? Never mind that he looked into the camera and counseled that "people shouldn't smoke, young or old." What lingered like a two-pack-a-day cough was the clip shown on the evening news of Dole getting testy about the issue. Bill Clinton would no doubt chalk the performance up to Dole's "addiction to tobacco money," but no stack of dollars--not even the more than $400,000 Dole's campaigns and PACs have taken from Big Tobacco during his career--could lure a politician into the kind of trap Dole...
LESSON NO. 2: IF THERE'S BAD NEWS LURKING, LET IT OUT YOURSELF. Like Dole, the White House has had trouble containing its most damaging story. In the FBI-file scandal, by failing to explain who hired Livingstone and by failing to release the delicious fact that Livingstone was a Chicken George co-conspirator in 1992, the White House handed the Republicans an extra week of controversy. "I know, dump it all out fast and make it go away," says press secretary Mike McCurry. "But they're not letting this go away. If we had got the facts out quickly...
This may help explain why Clinton, despite what Dole calls the "drip, drip, drip" of Whitewater, is still about 15 points ahead in most polls. Voters are making sophisticated, even jaded judgments in favor of Clinton. Half believe the President is misleading them about Whitewater and Filegate, but many don't much care. More than half of Americans approve of Clinton's job performance. Unless he is directly implicated in wrongdoing, voters seem ready to give him the benefit of the doubt. They may not be fully comfortable with him so much as impressed by his ability to stay afloat...
...used to be a science person, so in the summer after my junior year I decided to work in a lab in Paris. It was interesting work, and I could use my newfound knowledge later on in the summer to explain to my German teacher what might be the cause of her battle with the 5 o'clock shadow. Of course I couldn't be too sure about it--I only knew that "Daisy" (a kind of gene) might have caused some of her problems. But at the end of the month I craved sunshine, and it started to grate...
...comic potential of fighter-pilot bravado when confronted by a threat so ludicrously daunting as a space invasion. And, exercising the techno-babble he learned in "Jurassic Park," Jeff Goldblum staves off the humorous bickering of his worrying father (Judd Hirsch) to save the world with the scientist's explain-it-all manner...