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During Bush's first run for the presidency, that uneasy relationship was already on display. Eager to establish himself as a compassionate conservative, Bush took an oblique shot at DeLay while campaigning in California in 1999, saying of House Republicans, "I don't think they ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor." DeLay never got a major speaking role at either of Bush's conventions. Still, the White House has had no qualms about using him to advance its agenda, and he has delivered. Without DeLay's deftness as the Hammer, Bush could have lost battles...
...enthusiastic?and active?backer in Goss. He told TIME in June that he had made dozens of leak-investigation referrals. "Virtually every day I can pick up a paper and find somebody who is an anonymous source," he said. "That is willful. And it seems to me there ought to be a penalty for that...
...body. Still, there's something conspicuous about the lack of sympathy that Kennedy's confession elicited. Granted, a press corps that's been lied to (Kennedy repeatedly denied in interviews any problem with alcohol) is likely to pounce hard in revenge. But denial is built in to alcoholism: there ought to be someone, somewhere in a British newsroom who can verify that. And as lies go, Kennedy's were fairly victimless. No, there's definitely a dose of false sanctimony in the rush to trash Kennedy's mea culpa. It recalls the frenzy last autumn with which the British press...
...choice advocates can reframe the debate over abortion by arguing as Bill Clinton has that abortion ought to be “safe, legal, and rare.” EC, along with safe-sex education, is a powerful means to this last end, enabling the pro-choice community to prove in concrete terms that its members believe, along with most of America, that abortion should be employed only a last resort, albeit a perfectly legal...
...posting video recordings of its lectures on the Internet within hours of their completion, thereby eliminating the need to come to class on time, if at all. Instead of resorting to dirty bribery to motivate its students to crawl out from the bed a few minutes earlier, administrators ought to cut some of these extraneous perks—perks that enable students to attend lecture electronically from their desks at their leisure, when they are feeling more alert...