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...enough party, and big enough people, to disagree on individual issues and still work together for our common goal: restoring the American dream." Former president Gerald R. Ford too urged GOP activists to work under a big tent open to broad views. "Ours is the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln," Ford said...
This is not, putting it mildly, a fun premise. Indeed, the screenwriters (James DeMonaco and Gary Nadeau) and the director (Francis Ford Coppola, no less) consider it to be a philosophical premise, an occasion to wax pseudo-wise about life's brevity and the need to live it to the fullest while we're still here. There are also several demonstrations of why it is not nice to make fun of people who are different from...
Even so, there's more than a little hypocrisy to the taunting of Dole. Until recently, Democrats were just as dependent on tobacco money as Republicans. The second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, Wendell Ford of Kentucky, has reaped $76,057 since 1986, while House minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri has received $67,258. The industry's contributions to both parties was fairly even until 1992 when, the Center for Responsive Politics reports, Republicans got twice as much soft money from tobacco interests as Democrats: $1.9 million to $900,000. That gap widened in 1994, when Republicans raked...
...friend who went to the Bahamas with Hemingway in June, says she grappled with a raft of difficulties: "fundamental middle-child syndrome...dyslexia, bulimia, epilepsy." And there was alcoholism. In 1987, following a severe seizure during which she nearly bit her tongue off, Hemingway admitted herself to the Betty Ford Clinic. "I decided that had been a message to get well or I would die," she told an interviewer. But she did not confide to her therapists that she also was bulimic. Hemingway always struggled with her weight. In 1990 she slimmed down and posed for Playboy...
...Ford 5 Intel 5 Merck 5 Columbia/HCA 4 Exxon 4 Hewlett-Packard 4 Johnson & Johnson 4 Pepsico 4 Wal-Mart 4 McDonald...