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...posed to Bush was abundantly clear. One runs on candor and fumes; the other hides in the motorcade. One takes a punch and looks stronger; the other throws a punch and looks weaker. One seems to delight in crashing the party; the other drapes the Republican establishment around his neck like a mink...
...think McCain's definition of honor begins with a willingness to risk your neck for a cause without making a big deal about it. For a cause to be a cause it must, at least initially, be unpopular. McCain's distaste for polls grows out of his need to champion unpopular causes. He has a romantic belief that if you lead a Good Life, you will know instinctively the right thing to do, and you can lead others to that knowledge...
...Sunday threw its support behind Bush and threatened to pull their votes from the GOP if John McCain were elected the party's nominee. While this would appear to be a welcome endorsement for Bush - especially in conservative South Carolina, where Bush and McCain are engaged in a neck-and-neck race for this Saturday's Republican presidential primary - it leaves him in a tricky position. He risks being seen as too cozy with Pat Robertson's ultra-conservative organization when he knows the coalition's positions on abortion and other hot-button social issues are unlikely to fly with...
...just might be working. After McCain's big New Hampshire win vaulted him into a dead heat with Bush in South Carolina polls, McCain's momentum appears to have slowed, with the two remaining neck-and-neck over the past week. And if W.'s ads and newfound aggressiveness change some Republican hearts and minds while keeping Democrat and independent turnout low, South Carolina - and the GOP nomination - is his. The risk, of course, in staking everything is that while South Carolina could be his Gettysburg, it could also be his Waterloo...
Spider corpses and snake venom are among the sculptor Cornelia Parker's materials--guillotines and explosives are among her tools. These are the things that keep Parker up at night, "the things that make the hair on the back of my neck stand up," as she puts...