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...Lock all doors... We want two locked doors between you and the street." You do? Then why do so many houses keep one entryway open for the whole day? Seems to me that helps these urban criminals become aware of our surroundings as well...
...opponent. Each still refuses to debate and will not even speak before the same audience as the Democratic challenger. For much of the summer, both have refused to respond to their opponents comments. The tactic has been more effective for the 94-year old Thurmond, who is almost a lock to defeat relative newcomer Elliott Close. "You just don't run a political novice against a political legend, no matter how old," Towle notes. In North Carolina, it's a somewhat different story. Helms' bitter, racially charged 1990 contest against former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt established Gantt as a legitimate...
...long ago, all a Republican presidential candidate had to do was point out that his opponent was soft on Fidel Castro to maintain the G.O.P.'s lock on Florida's powerful Cuban-American community. But Bob Dole has nothing on Bill Clinton. The President has been courting that community, and to them he is now a hard-liner after their own hearts. A Miami poll has found that 41% of Florida's Cuban Americans plan to vote for Clinton, almost double what he won in 1992, finally giving him a chance to take the state he lost by a squeaker...
When the conversation does lock onto a subject, there can be fireworks. In the series' best segment, "Apocalypse," about the Flood, British author (and former nun) Karen Armstrong conducts a blistering twin attack. God, she maintains, is "not some nice, cozy daddy in the sky." He is "behaving in an evil way," effectively introducing mankind to the idea of justifiable genocide. Noah, meanwhile, is a "damaged survivor" who says no word about those drowning around him, much less tries to help them. Drinking his troubles away after reaching shore, he is enraged at being seen naked...
...have ever had in the history of this country a special-interest Administration that was bought and paid for lock, stock and barrel by selfish interests, it's [this] Administration...