Word: idealists
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...Want to throw your vote away like a true idealist...
...just dares wavering voters to make a decision and stick with it. It's even hard to choose whom to blame for its being so hard to choose. Could they be more alike, the two political princes, Texas and Tennessee, Harvard and Yale, the compassionate conservative against the pragmatic idealist? Could they be more different, one so unpolished it's hard to imagine, the other so shiny it hurts to look. Vice President Al Gore runs as a populist who doesn't talk much about the poor; George W. Bush, backed by more GOP fat cats than any other Republican...
Recently it has become fashionable to compare Gore to Michael Corleone in The Godfather, a soft idealist who becomes hard and cold and reconciled to the violence of the family business. But Gore's taste for political combat isn't acquired; it's innate. His prosecutorial streak was there when he was a reporter busting crooked councilmen in Nashville. It was there when he was a House subcommittee member grilling corporate executives about toxic waste. It was there during his first presidential campaign, in 1988, when he twisted the facts when attacking Michael Dukakis and baited Dick Gephardt for flip...
...Idealist, also by Estee Lauder, plays on the incipient insecurities of the late-20s crowd. "You can't just start thinking about the effects of aging at 30," says Sandy Cataldo, senior vice president of marketing. "For 40% of women, it becomes a lifelong obsession between 25 and 29." Among other ingredients, Idealist's breathable polymers (that's silicone to you and me) are intended to fill in the pores in the skin that grow larger with...
...Life of an Idealist...