Word: ops
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...Washington you can tell the season by the White House photo op. Winter: congratulating a football team. Spring: egg-rolling on the White House lawn. Fourth week in November: a gift from favor-seeking poultry interests...
Texas floods provide nonstop photo op for Governor in tight race...
President Clinton, at the central photo-op of his six-country Mideast tour, said today's signing of the treaty between Israel and Jordan made peace in the region "unstoppable." After presiding over the affair with Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- the podium, symbolically, was erected on a former mine field on the two countries' border -- Clinton made a peace offering to uneasy Jordanian Muslims. "We respect Islam," he announced, to loud applause from at least one side of the river Jordan. That appeared to set up his next line, a condemnation of Islamic terrorists...
...columns have been increasingly larded with aphorisms, with the occasional platitude thrown in for good measure. She ran the risk of becoming the Forrest Gump of the Op-Ed page. Her pieces read as a largo interpretation of life where much is kept...
...feeling lucky for weeks about their chances to seize a Senate majority come November, but now they're also actually within shooting distance of the House for the first time since 1954. This morning, about 350 G.O.P. lawmakers and House candidates gathered under the Capitol dome for a photo-op signing of a new "Contract with America" -- a 10-point platform they said they'd turn into reality if they tip the electoral scales in six weeks. Among the pledges, courtesy of ringleader and House minority whip Newt Gingrich: a balanced-budget amendment, presidential line-item veto, making the death...