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...friend's call made me realize that I am not the only person whose grasp on reality was shaken by the Tonight Show appearance of Elizabeth Dole in motorcycle duds. In fact, I believe our response to her appearance was symptomatic of a problem more widespread than people have been willing to admit...
...experience under your belt. Most probably you did not do as well in your first round of sections as you would have liked. Your TF did not love your final paper as much as you did. You missed an ID on the final. An "A" slipped out of your grasp like a vanishing ghost. You now realize that when it comes to sections, essentially you are positioned on the B+/A- fence. Wave hello to the rest of your class--they are sitting there with...
Vigorous diplomacy was required to shore up allied support for U.S. actions. The most egregious snub seemed to come from Kuwait, the very nation the coalition rescued from Saddam's grasp, when the U.S. Administration's plan to deploy an added 3,500 Americans was publicly put on hold for a day. But officials admit the show of pique was Washington's fault: an army officer misread an order to prepare to deploy as the final go-ahead, prompting the Pentagon to announce the troops were going before Perry could seek permission from Kuwait. U.S. diplomats scrambled to repair...
...commuter traffic in the others. The cumbersome motorcade column makes a giant U-turn and pulls onto the highway. Agents secure the area, and Clinton goes over and shakes a block's worth of hands. Little kids stick their tiny fists through the cyclone fence; big kids and teachers grasp high over the top. Fifteen minutes later, as the motorcade pulls away, hundreds of young voices are squealing "Bill! Bill! Bill!" and Clinton is beaming. Campaign aides are well pleased: before breakfast they've bagged half a day's worth of pictures they know will saturate local TV news...
...task now for the Democrats in Congress--and for the Republicans who squandered the advantage that was in their grasp after 1994--is to learn the lessons of the Clinton victory and develop a broad-based, centrist philosophy that seeks to build on the fiscally prudent, values-based agenda that President Clinton began to articulate during the 1996 campaign...