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...real gaffe ought to reinforce some pre-existing suspicion: the Bush folks don't care about civil liberties, or Chirac is losing his marbles. One TV commentator, trying to explain his ginned-up outrage over Boxer, accused her of thinking that a black woman can't be Secretary of State without children - a form of prejudice so convoluted that no one could actually have it, let alone a liberal congresswoman from northern California...
RICE Indianapolis. [Laughs] I'm fine either way. I like Chicago. I like Lovie Smith. I like Indianapolis. I like Tony Dungy. But, for me, I'd like Peyton Manning to get this done. Great quarterbacks ought to have the Super Bowl...
...politician ought to have an ideology. For that matter, so should a voter. Although ideology is sometimes dismissed as a substitute for thinking, it more likely is evidence that you've thought things through. Why is there a huge farm bill and no bill for struggling autoworkers? Why did we invade Iraq in search of nuclear weapons, but not North Korea? Hillary Clinton's description of her beliefs, quoted above, sounds more like a charity fund-raiser gift bag--a little of this, a little of that--than a coherent philosophy. Her competitors are no better...
...brands-- Forth & Towne, a midpriced line aimed at baby boomers, and Piperlime, an online shoe store--instead of working to make the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic relevant again. Rather than trying to be everything to everyone again, says David Bassuk, retail consultant at Kurt Salmon Associates, Gap ought to focus its brands on a narrower group--shoppers in their...
...still suffering from the pre-1997 trauma. My point is that every country in Europe has a sensible, moderate center-right party that stands for that mixture of enterprise and compassion and the Conservative Party should be that party in Scotland. And we haven't been but we've ought to be. So we're in Aberdeen and going to Edinburgh. I'm bringing the whole shadow cabinet to Edinburgh ? no party leader of any party has ever done that as far as I can see. [Gestures at David Mundell, sitting at the next table.] I mean David...