Word: letting
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Five weeks earlier, when Republican Senators misplayed a crucial gun-control vote and allowed the Vice President to break the 50-50 tie in the Senate chamber, the moment had been a political gift. House Republicans last week let him keep it. Gore can show his best outraged face at congressional inaction, but privately strategists in his camp are ecstatic. They hope that Gore-the-gun-control-crusader will bore into the lead of front runner Bush, whom they view as vulnerable because he opposes mandatory child-safety locks on guns and supports the right of Texans to carry...
...Let's stipulate that the "reinvigoration of his faith" is genuine--but it's also helpful in the here and now. Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed says, "His testimony of a profound faith experience does not act as a surrogate for being acceptable on the issue, but it does make it easier to give him the benefit of the doubt because he shares the grassroots faith and values...
...laugh at them until this day, and they're nothing to send off to Uncle Lou and Aunt Bernice in Port Chester, but at the same time I've also realized that they're also nothing that would get me in trouble on a mid-1980's NBC sitcom, let alone get me kicked out of school. They're fine...
...what I have learned to love and admire about my schoolmates is not their invincibility, but their humanity. There were my dormmates, who eagerly signed up to scribe my homework and lent me tapes and tape recorders to do homework. The senior who let me use his voice dictation software in the basement of The Crimson. The Crimson news comp director, who figured out a way for me to continue reporting. My high school friend, also a Harvard first-year, who volunteered to help me finish The Crimson's news comp. That humanity wasn't only students. Professors and teaching...
...Israel by the Islamic guerrilla movement Hezbollah, and warned of more to come. Incoming prime minister Ehud Barak was not consulted on the decision, and he may prefer it that way. "Making peace with Syria, which controls Lebanon, is Barak?s priority, and he?s not going to let skirmishes with Hezbollah get in the way," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "Distancing himself from the decision to strike may actually help him pursue peace with the Syrians by appearing as the good...