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Edelman has long been my personal hero. No one would argue with the fact that the needs of all children are increasingly not being met. Where we get mired in the muck of politics is in finding solutions to the problems. My first commitment is to my own children, then to the kids in my neighborhood and extended family, then to those in my children's schools, then to youngsters in the wider community. If we can all think of ourselves as casting a stone that makes ripples in a pond, we can make a difference in our Stand...
Instead of giving Clinton the hoped-for acquittal--which could have buried the issue and discredited Starr--the jurors handed the G.O.P. a bright flag to plant in the Whitewater muck. For one thing, they rejected a central tenet of Clinton's Whitewater theology. By basing their decision on documentary evidence and discounting the testimony of both Clinton and the defendants' chief accuser, David Hale, they undermined the White House argument that the investigation is a baseless, partisan witch hunt. Now it doesn't matter so much that no one can follow the storyline, says G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour, because...
...with disaster, the flying public is forced to confront dangers it never even knew existed--remember microbursts and wind shear?--and the airlines scramble to alter policies, upgrade technology or retrain their pilots. In the case of the May 11 crash of ValuJet Flight 592, which plunged into the muck of the Everglades and killed all 110 people on board, the safety concerns are so varied--and the questions emerging about the role of the Federal Aviation Administration in regulating low-cost airlines so troubling--that it may be a while before passengers again feel that the skies are comfortable...
...this, you will have to overcome a lifetime habit of thinking words are the enemy. Up until now they have seemed that way. Words muck up deals, create divisions, draw battle lines, are misunderstood. When you are a legislator, silence is your friend. The unspoken word never has to be taken back. (And dust-bowl Kansas wasn't exactly a place for airy chat; you grew up in the last age of yup and nope. "Lost the farm." "Bad." "Still tryin'." "Good.") Now it's all different. When you run for President, words are your friend, your only friend...
Blue Man Group's stage piece "Tubes" is like a Baptist revival on Mars. Three mute, blue figures muck around at the messy crossroads of modern life, splashing around in paint to demonstrate chaos theory, attacking Twinkie's with power drills to re-examine such banalities as shrink-wrap, vacuuming the pathetic Christina out of Wyeth's "Christina's World." Frequent musical segments with deep primal bass lines and irregular-heartbeat drums overwhelm the audience in a purely sensory world, freeing them from the burden of too much thinking. Genteel Boston audiences have become devotees of the Blue Man Experience...