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...this week of a partial shutdown of the Federal Government or a temporary default on U.S. debt payment. Both could happen if the President vetoes the temporary debt-limit extension that the Republican Congress has put before him, and that requires him to approve their budget proposals. This is macho, partisan face-off time. If you're a Perot voter, or even if you're not, there could hardly be a better example of Beltway fecklessness...
...this were a movie, the background score would start its subliminal scream at about this point. But Moore's novel is both more complicated than the standard Hollywood thriller and more disturbing. Frannie is alarmed by Malloy's attention but much more strongly attracted to his macho presence. When he takes her to a bar for more questions about the murder, it dawns on her that she is trying to make herself attractive to him: "I was a little worried when I realized that it was more than wanting him to like me. I realized that I wanted...
...Just Like My Father is a conflicted, primal and ultimately moving play about a woman's search for personal identity, through the lens of a macho male stereotype. Transcending the superficialities of sexual and political correctness, Shaw performs a personal yet objective piece about her journey to self-realization...
...legal troubles and now works for Fuhrman, also declared last week, echoing Clark, that the tapes just show Fuhrman "talking a lot of trash. He wanted this woman to be excited about his stories. And he was blustering and posturing and puffing himself up and making himself look macho and everything else that you could imagine." As for the matter of his sworn testimony regarding the word nigger, Pellicano insisted that Fuhrman, who retired from the force this month and now lives in Idaho, was just confused. "Did you ever hear the term mental block? I mean, when someone asks...
Military psychologist Dan Landis says, "There are all kinds of macho traditions that have grown up at the Citadel whose rationales have long been forgotten. They're useless." Indeed, the Citadel's ego-stripping program can be worse than useless. One Citadel graduate was among the four Rangers who froze to death in a training exercise in Florida this year. His instructors told him to continue to string a rope in 52-degree water, and he did so until he died. Pentagon statistics show that since 1989 seven soldiers have died in training for every one killed in combat...