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...Bush team doesn't pretend that it never worried about how McCain's speech might play, especially in states like New York and California. Had it been more about the entrenched Establishment in general and less a personal salvo against Robertson and company, the speech might have worried them more. "There are artful ways of making this work," chirped a senior Bush official, "but McCain is inartful." Bush allies delighted in pointing out the inconsistencies that have been piling up for a while now. McCain attacked Bush for speaking at Bob Jones University, even though Congressman Lindsey Graham...
Just because you can do something, however, doesn't mean you should. Donating a kidney means undergoing an operation that carries some risk. You could argue that you may be helping to save a life. But you certainly can't pretend that you're better off with one kidney instead...
...body, he said, was like one of those shells: his spirit didn't live there anymore, but instead lived on in their hearts and memories and in heaven. Young children who lack the verbal skills to express their feelings about death should be encouraged to draw pictures, play and pretend. (My daughter's "burying" her doll after a death in the family showed me the value of such play...
...tracks, like walking into a movie theater half-way through and staying on to watch the first half of the next showing. Catching up is just a matter of patience. Just the same, "Crawl Space" thrives on its own ability to elude, to string together transitional shots that only pretend to be taking us somewhere, so that the dreadful lurks just out of reach as perpetual and elegant anticlimax. Slow pans, meanderings and disconcertingly long pauses over bits of debris all leave us someplace between the urge to catalogue and the urge to scrutinize...
...going to pretend that antagonism is going to disappear overnight," he said...