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...Gore shares with Bush a tendency to trim the edges, smudge the details, grasp at qualifiers and embrace technicalities. But what if Gore has to face the straight-shooting McCain in the fall? Since Gore linked up with that Clinton fellow, labeled "an unusually good liar" by Senator Bob Kerrey, the Veep's grip on reality has, shall we say, loosened. You can see the wheels turning. Sure, honesty is the best policy. What's the second best policy? He saw the potential of the Internet early, but invent it? He and Tipper the models for Love Story...
...life. Brigitte is angry at his absence and accuses him of running off for a fling with another woman. When he tries to tell her the truth and shows her his scars as proof, he only confirms her suspicions. But who could be expected to believe his story or grasp his feelings of violation and shame? When he happens to meet a police officer who investigates unsolved crimes, he recounts his experience as if it had happened to a friend of his: "Olsen was silent for a moment, and then he laughed and said, 'That's terrible...
...outsiders have climbed God's Mountain. An A.P. Television News crew, invited in last December, found that most of the soldiers surrounding the twins were barely in their teens. The reality of war seemed to be beyond their grasp. The twins played with guns as if they were toys: after Johnny fired some shots, another boy put a papaya on his head as if vamping a part in William Tell. The twins said they had lost count of how many Burmese they had killed. Said Luther, the more serious of the two, to the A.P. crew: "I have never cried...
...wanted a different kind of campaign, noble and high protein. But Gore wanted to do it the old-fashioned way. Bradley might survive as the un-Politician but only if he is willing to fight for it and, by extension, fight for us. So far, he seems not to grasp the role televised debates play these days. They are no longer pro-bowl versions of high school oratory contests; increasingly, debates are the arena itself, where most of the winning and losing and living and dying of candidates takes place. His contempt for Gore just looked like bad manners...
...think that they are going to do a fantastic job and that they have a great grasp of the issues on campus," he said. "Our new editor, Ross, is the best writer that we have and he was born to be an editorialist. Our new publisher, Bronwen, really has a moral passion that she is going to bring the Salient and to her writing as a whole...