Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talked a bit both at the book reading and in your book about populism being a term that's misused greatly. ("Calling David Duke a populist is like calling Pat Buchanan a global visionary: message--Zulus are coming.") Can you ever...
...Have you made the first cut? Been invited to the first you-may-already-be-a-winner cocktail party for comp finalists? And if you're comping The Harvard Crimson, have you done your required "Tommy's run" yet? (Remember: that's two Sweet-n-Lows, two creams in Pat's coffee...
...have a different story of the AIDS epidemic. I have my own version of the story, which differs slightly from Shilts's and radically from HBO's[Home Box Office's]. The World Health Organization has its version, ACT UP [AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power] its, and Pat Robertson his. There are perhaps as many versions of the story as there are people with AIDS, and the stories, both personal and multifaceted, carry with them the power of drama. The reality of AIDS itself is much simpler: It is caused by HIV, and HIV is transmitted through the exchange...
...difficult to deliver the four-course free lunch that he promised. The health-care initiative he unveiled to the nation last Wednesday, though widely praised for boldness and compassion, is drawing fire on precisely the point identified by Aaron and others: the rosy assumptions that undergird its financing. Senator Pat Moynihan of New York, chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, spoke for many fellow Democrats last week when he dismissed those assumptions as "fantasy" and warned that "we mustn't pretend that this is going to be free." And Republican lawmakers who attended the President's address wore lapel buttons...
...Democrat, rather than clearly old or new. Such artful ambivalence is often necessary in Washington, but Clinton's was on display all the time, and he gave both factions license to carp at him as inconsistent. In addition, he gave insufficient deference to committee chairmen like Sam Nunn and Pat Moynihan and paid dearly for the slights: Nunn has nearly shut down Clinton on gays in the military, and Moynihan last week suggested that Clinton's health- care financing scheme was spun from whole cloth...