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...Middle East violence began with skirmishes after Israeli superhawk Ariel Sharon visited the disputed holy site in old Jerusalem, escalated with the gut-wrenching televised death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot as his father tried to shelter him, and then erupted when seething Palestinians (whom Yasser Arafat seemed at first unwilling and then unable to control) murdered and mutilated two Israeli soldiers. Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered a military retaliation, which halted his lonely reach, or perhaps overreach, for a comprehensive peace...
...decided that such a judgment was far too important to leave to gut instinct or to the opinions of self-appointed pundits. What price truth, freedom and the American way? I reckon about $160 (plus shipping and handling) should do it - and that's the amount I invested in a new computer program that promises to sort the wheat from the chaff, the pretender from the president-elect - the Bush from the Gore (or vice versa...
There's an old parlor game, a kind of gut check for the heart and the head. Would you rather be rich or pretty? Happy or famous? Is it better to be good or to be smart? For a while this race looked like a clean choice, more government or lower taxes, the Tin Man or the Scarecrow, the teacher's pet or the class clown. But with each freshly deadlocked poll, it is looking less like a clear choice than a hard one. And last week it became a real one as well, when voters finally got to watch...
...best Will "the Thrill" Clark can hope for is a Bud and a hi-five from a yokel with a beer gut. And while I'm sure that Birdy means well, the deck was stacked against him from birth...
There's an old parlor game, a kind of gut check for the heart and head. Would you rather be rich or pretty? Happy or famous? Is it better to be good or to be smart? For a while this race looked like a clean choice, more government or lower taxes, the Tin Man or the Scarecrow, the teacher's pet or the class clown. But with each freshly deadlocked poll, it is looking less like a clear choice than a hard one. And last week it became a real one as well, when voters finally got to watch...