Word: insist
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...life and stereotypical Jewish angst. "Young Bergdorf Goodman Browr, " his adaption of Nathanial Hawthorne's dark masterpiece, satirizes paranoia apropos to Jewish-extraterrestrial conspiracies, Six Degrees of Separation, and the gauntlet to be run when trying to escape those downright annoying perfume sales-woman at the department store who insist that you sample their scents: "We've daubed your wrists, your lower arms, your chest, your stomach, your ankles, calves, knees...Let's see...Hey, if you don't mind, how about the upper portion of your buttocks...
This too is a logic with which I am unfamiliar. Why not more broadly insist that students take a literature class, in the style of their choice, rather than limiting their options to those classes which qualify as Literature and Arts...
...Republicans in the House, the past two months have been a frustrating lesson in the meaning of checks and balances. But even if they end up losing some of the big early battles, they insist that the war is only beginning. "Our term is two years, not 100 days," says G.O.P. freshman Roger Wicker of Mississippi. "The balanced-budget amendment and the line-item veto are means to an end, and that's federal-budget discipline. The real test of our victory will be where the deficit is at the end of that two-year period...
...Simpson attorney F. Lee Bailey cracked the steely demeanor of Detective Mark Fuhrman today, under repeated questioning about Fuhrman's alleged use of racial epithets and suggestions that Furhrman planted a bloody glove in Simpson's backyard to frame him. The LAPD detective continued to insist that he had not framed O.J., nor had he ever used word "nigger" in a conversation with anyone. But when Bailey asked, "Didn't it seem strange to you that after seven and a half hours that glove still showed moist, sticky blood, Detective Fuhrman?" Fuhrman hesitated and appeared at a loss for words...
Even with a clear path to his party's nomination, Clinton will have to justify a second term in light of the likely judgment that his first four years were not a wild success. The President's advisers insist Clinton's future will look brighter once a Republican opponent emerges. "Politics is a binary game," says Mike McCurry, the White House press secretary. "There are winners and losers, and the choice will be between Clinton and someone who offers a contrasting vision." In the comparison of his vision against Bob Dole's or Phil Gramm's, Clinton's aides believe...