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...almost always result in statements that strain credulity--that Texas has never executed an innocent man, say, or that one has always believed that the case of Elian Gonzalez belongs in family court. The presidential debates were full of misstatements on both sides, although one may dispute whether the mistaken anecdotes of Caley Ellis's desk and Winifred Skinner's aluminum cans are more or less important than a false claim to have supported a Patient's Bill of Rights...
...chapter is hilarious, self-serving, and provocative; Wolfe uses his three stooges to make his case for the future of the American novel (a case he has, not incidentally, made before). Novelists like Updike, Mailer and Irving, says Wolfe, write books that only other novelists of the same mistaken convictions would enjoy; more likely than not their most recent work "sank like a stone" from the public's interest. And yet they complain that there is a crisis in the health of the American novel, that nobody likes to read novels anymore-would-be readers would rather watch movies. Wolfe...
...spurious devotion to personality over politics, the effectiveness of the Republican slander campaign against Vice President Al Gore '69 and near-total inability of the Democrats to articulate the issues at stake. These three tragic elements combine to give working-class independents, who will swing the election, the mistaken idea that the route to education reform, environmental protection and a fair wage for a fair day's work runs through a vacuous philosophical sham termed "Compassionate Conservatism...
Unlike the Anthony dollar--which was easily mistaken for a quarter and quickly fell out of favor with the public--the new coin was intended to correct past missteps...
...Jacobson Ranalli, 12, that kind of attention is such a source of pride that the girls are willing to use their real names. Says Angelica: "The boys tease me. They ask me, 'Have you had plastic surgery?' My friends get kind of jealous." Emily, giggling, says, "I've been mistaken for 17." But even they see a downside to looking a half-decade older than they really are. "Life gets harder and harder when you're developed," admits Angelica. "Boys walk up and hit your butt. They won't stay away. They're like dogs...