Word: intentionally
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...reader who might be on the point of rebellion. Her novel is both powerful and quite simple. It is also angrier and more direct than her earlier books, Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven, in which social issues involving Native Americans remained mostly in the background. The clear intent of The Poisonwood Bible is to offer Nathan Price's patriarchal troublemaking as an example in miniature of historical white exploitation of black Africa. Kingsolver, 43, lived in the Congo in the early '60s, and fondly remembers the people and the terrain. But this is a novel, not travel writing salted...
WASHINGTON: Justice officials investigating the Clinton/Gore '96 reelection drive -- and the possible misuse of soft money for issue advocacy ads -- are finding Bill Clinton a voluble target. TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon says that Clinton's guilt or innocence still depends largely on intent, and that means Clinton's best tack is cooperation early and often -- starting with a nonconfrontational interview Monday with Reno's investigators...
WASHINGTON: The GOP would probably rather be in Houston -- but this time around, Philly is the way to go. Reeling from Tuesday's election and intent on broadening their appeal, the Republicans are pitching their 2000 convention tent squarely in traditional Democratic territory -- the northeast. "The first president of the next millennium will be nominated in the cradle of liberty," Republican Party Chairman Jim Nicholson said Thursday...
Despite its difficulty in making the "bundling" argument, Justice has continued to build its case around the Internet browser--the principal software used to navigate the Internet. The government contends that Microsoft has been intent on overtaking Netscape's Navigator because it fears that such browsers may one day be used as an alternative operating system for computers in a way that could make Windows obsolete. Winning the browser war, Boies charged, was Microsoft's way of gaining "a choke hold on the Internet...
...affair -? and a mere four days before the midterm elections -? the Democratic National Committee has slapped together a couple of last-minute rebuttals. And in true Clintonian tradition, the ads are "positive-negative" -? that is, attacking opponents while effortlessly appearing to be still talking about the issues. "Republicans -? so intent on attacking the President they?ve forgotten about us," says one. "I?m sick of hearing them debate everything except what will really make a difference in our children?s future," says the other. You get the idea...