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...separate stage in the crowd also gave intimacy to the enormous arena production. Donning a black flak jacket and Zoo TV cap, Bono stood alone on the smaller stage during "Bullet the Blue Sky," delivering his short, explosive attack on Central American civil war in military commando style...
...Democratic primary campaign, the Republican race was settling into a two-man contest -- between Bush and his lesser self. Gone is the commander of Desert Storm, the man who confidently vowed that Saddam Hussein's aggression "will not stand." In his place is a calculating politician who whines about "flak." Rather than telling Americans why he wants another four years and what he intends to do with them, Bush is repudiating one of the few domestic accomplishments of his first term -- a successful budget compromise that cut and capped spending, raised taxes and reduced government borrowing by nearly $500 billion...
Harvard still has its problems with thegovernment. By taking the public relations highground, though, the University has assured itselfof having to deflect less flak from theCongressional subcommittee members than many otherschools, particularly...
...were getting a lot of flak from everybody...
Such programs are also taking flak from labor and business interests. "You can't start a serious business with an unemployment check," says Lawrence Kenney, president of the AFL-CIO's Washington State Labor Council. "If you do, you're talking about a bunch of poorly capitalized businesses that hardly stand a chance of surviving." Eldred Hill, head of UBA Inc., a pro-business lobby, charges that programs like MEP and SEED are unfair to employers who pay into the unemployment-insurance pool. "By letting people use unemployment benefits to start a business, we're forcing employers to finance enterprises...