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...basing the film on the Gore family photo album - Al dressed up as Frankenstein for Halloween, Tipper hanging up laundry as a military housewife - underscored one of the most oddly homey images of the campaign so far: her geeky, endearing habit of snapping pictures from the stage at every campaign event; she even recorded the leering mug of Larry King on CNN Wednesday. Note to the Gore staff, however: You might want to reconsider the symbolism of the candidate's wife publicly trying to capture their moment on the national stage while it lasts...
...BACKLASH STARTS HERE The habit of naming an urban district by fragmenting and contracting the names of its borders (e.g., Manhattan's SoHo, South of Houston Street), hoping to imply a newfound hipness, has grown into a cultural virus...
...Governments are not in the habit of going out of their way to satisfy the voyeuristic impulses of a morbidly curious public. Perhaps there's simply some bureaucratic sense of duty to record the minutiae of a condemned person's last day on earth. Or perhaps our culture has evolved this ritual of the ? la carte last meal to sugarcoat what remains a grim act of violence by the state to redress a previous wrong. After all, in some countries, a condemned man's last meal is whatever the prison kitchen happens to be serving that day, and death...
George W.'s dad couldn't shake the habit either. After he lost in 1992, the President announced that he was going to exit the scene, write his memoirs and play with his grandchildren. He would be, in short, the graceful loser Dorothy had taught him to be. But as the years passed and Clinton's personal problems increased, it was hard to shake the feeling that he had lost to a lesser man. If President Bush was disciplined about holding his tongue, you have to wonder whether it was because he had an even better revenge in mind than...
...much for the past. What about Cheney's future health? He clearly did himself a big favor 22 years ago when he gave up a three-pack-a-day cigarette habit. He supervised the planning and execution of the 1991 Persian Gulf War with nary a complaint from his ticker. He was also lucky that his first attack struck the bottom wall of his heart, an area that is often associated with minimal tissue damage...