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...role in their debate. So far, Bush has resisted being drawn into national moments, like this one on gun control, choosing instead to sit on his lead until mid-June, when he plans to take his first presidential trips. But Dole, his closest Republican challenger, is trying hard to prick him into action. In a speech she was scheduled to deliver this Monday, she said, "Leadership requires more than sitting on a front porch measuring which direction the gunsmoke is blowing." Until he began preparing a presidential run, Bush's position on most gun-control measures had been clear...
...delivering a message from the central administration that it was open to resolving Peter's case if we chose to follow this procedure. The point is as simple as the Uncle Remus story about Brer Rabbit and the briar patch. Each thorn along the procedural way a prick to spark consciousness in a new Harvard audience, each a stopping point along our way toward truth and justice and a stage to tell our story...
...good. The first therapist I saw in Cambridge--the first thing I said to him was, "I had dinner with my father last week and I made a classic Freudian slip. I meant to say, `Can you pass the salt please,' and it comes out, `You prick, you ruined my childhood!'" [The therapist] said, "Would you like me to laugh at that?" and I said, "Not if you can help it." That's pretty much how I feel about therapy and comedy. I know it sounds like it makes sense, but it doesn't necessarily. It's a true story...
...this the hushed lyricism of Jenny Giering's I Follow and the mordant merriment of Michael John LaChiusa's Mistress of the Senator, and you've got a collection guaranteed to make intelligent theater-music fans prick up their ears. There's only one catch: Way Back to Paradise contains scenes, arias, and even full-blown art songs. But nostalgia-hungry listeners will search in vain among these determinedly theatrical post-Sondheim musical monologues for anything resembling the straightforward, crisply turned lyrics and incisive 32-bar melodies that for decades defined American popular music at its best...
True, a foreign policy of least resistance has its attractions. It avoids trouble--for now. It is always the credo of appeasers that they saved real lives, which their critics would blithely sacrifice--to what purpose? Saving face? Power? Principle? Abstractions. If you prick them, do they bleed...