Word: grounds
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...scan newspapers, magazines and whatever else I can get my hands on for even the most esoteric scraps of information. Stanley Kubrick is tossing around the idea of moving back to the United States? Eddie Vedder got a new cat? Even though I keep my ear to the ground, I have the peculiar habit of going into bookstore and record stores for the sole purpose of scanning the titles of my favorite artists and authors. Even when I know damn well that a new work isn't coming out for months. Even when I have no reason to believe that...
Never mind that the Dole-Kemp ticket trailed Clinton-Gore by 16 points in the polls. Never mind that Bob Dole had gained no ground against President Clinton in a televised debate only three nights earlier. Never mind all that, because many senior Republicans had already resigned themselves to Dole's incoherent campaigning and likely defeat. But there was still a good chance Republicans could keep a hold on Congress and make a better run for the White House in 2000. And in both those struggles Republicans attached their hopes to Kemp, who seemed to be everything Dole...
...number of independent films including Bulletproof Heart and the current Steve Buscemi film Trees Lounge. Bochco then set about retooling the show to exploit the dramatic possibilities the new character offered. Says LaPaglia: "The character of Hoffman was a statesman who pretty much took the moral high ground. My character is more human in that he screws up and then tries to fix it. I think the fall from grace and the recovery from that is always more interesting to play than somebody who never falters...
...else provide safety and stability to a people who have never got along with their neighbors and who cannot even agree among themselves? The U.S. may spend billions of dollars to buy the allegiance of the Kurds against Saddam Hussein, but the Kurds, understanding the political realities on the ground, will not stay bought. The fact that one party of Kurds begged the succor of Saddam, the man who gassed about 4,000 Kurds only eight years earlier, should not be surprising to anyone who remembers that Iraq asked Iran for help during the Gulf War only a few years...
...marched America with a cool and confident brilliance into the quagmire of Vietnam" is to ignore his prophetic June 30, 1965, memorandum concerning the major troop-deployment decisions that were to transform the conflict into an American war--a memo that characterized the plan for massive U.S. ground-force involvement as "rash to the point of folly." Your article also made a grotesque fiction of Bundy's life after he left the government. He was a superb president of the Ford Foundation. Serious historians of the nuclear age consider his book on the atom a great work...