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Living here my whole life I never really got the opportunity to appreciate how differently New York (or New Yawk if you prefer) natives behave. Even those who have only been to the City once (and even Boston natives know what I mean by that) can pick out a New Yorkers in a crowd. How can I put this nicely? We're a distinctive group. Yes, New Yorkers are rude, and damn it, we're proud of it. We're loud, we talk quickly and we have a tendency to run over the slowpoke tourists that flood our city...
Living here my whole life I never really got the opportunity to appreciate how differently New York (or New York if you prefer) natives behave. Even those who have only been to the City once (and even Boston natives know what I mean by that) can pick out a New Yorker in a crowd. How can I put this nicely? We're a distinctive group. Yes, New Yorkers are rude, and damn it, we're proud of it. We're loud, we talk quickly and we have a tendency to run over the slowpoke tourists that flood our city...
...Ahearn will meet next week to ponder a way forward in a peace process that crashed because neither side could muster the trust to take the necessary political risks. The only smiles in Northern Ireland Thursday will be on the faces of the hard men of all stripes who prefer to let their weapons do the negotiating...
...Smith is absolutely right," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "The party establishment has found its candidate, the guy they think can win, and they?d prefer that the issues social conservatives like Smith champion would just go away." The Republicans have been worrying about their right flank since Reagan invited ultra-conservatives into the tent, and running hard to the center since Bob Dole fell flat in 1996. Impeachment, as America shrugged all the way on its descent into Bill Bennett?s cultural hell, may have sealed the deal. Pragmatic governors and tax-cut hawks are the party stars...
...debate is again setting up the dynamic for the election," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. Encouraged by the rhetorical and political momentum they gained over gun control, Democrats are trying to force the Republicans to go through some "tough political votes" over health care, says Dickerson. Republicans would prefer not to have to deal with the HMO issue, he reports, but, aware of the political draw of the matter, they are seeking to enact a limited bill that will both pass public muster and maintain the GOP?s reputation as the party of fiscal responsibility. At the moment there...