Word: foes
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Those anxieties are well founded. If American blood is shed in a war against Israel's most dangerous foe -- albeit for distinct U.S. interests -- Israel will have a difficult time explaining its own reluctance to make political sacrifices that could promote peace in the region...
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...year. The stress on new and different, moreover, can lead to the hyping of bogus breakthroughs. Fox's new sitcom True Colors, for example, is the first to focus on a racially mixed family, while CBS's E.A.R.T.H. Force pits a team of scientist-crime fighters against a new foe: environmental villains. But no one should mistake these shows for anything but warmed-over variations on All in the Family and Mission: Impossible. The most audacious hits of the past few seasons -- thirtysomething, The Wonder Years, The Simpsons -- did not invent new genres, but at least they invested them with...
...Barbie-Doll Treatment. This strategy -- painting a female foe as simply too sweet for the job -- is being tested by WMCs in several states. In Colorado Republican Senate hopeful Hank Brown dismissed Democrat Josie Heath's written demand that he put in escrow $605,000 raised for his campaign at a luncheon chaired by a Denver developer with the comment, "It's a cute letter, but without substance." Heath snapped back that Brown's remarks were "incredibly patronizing. Modern men and women in this country today are well past using language like 'cute' with a woman's serious request...
Amid the fears of a U.S. war with Iraq, America's struggle against a no less threatening enemy has been all but forgotten. That foe is the soaring federal deficit. In the four months since President Bush and congressional leaders convened their budget summit, Administration estimates of this year's deficit have exploded from $100 billion to $149 billion, not counting the $100 billion bailout of bankrupt savings and loans. The gap could grow even larger if the economy, already on the brink, is pushed into a recession by surging oil prices from the Persian Gulf crisis...