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...true Outback, water is often found only by digging a hole at the bottom of a rocky outcrop. It can get up to 120 degrees during the day and there is precious little shade. There's no ankle-deep water for a bikini-clad Jerri to lounge in and proclaim "Look at us. Just hanging out like we're on vacation." Indeed...
...throat has ebbed enough to enable her to swallow a spoon or two of warm gruel, but most of the nourishment flows away in constant diarrhea. She struggles to keep her hand from scratching restlessly at the scaly rash flushing her other cheek. She is not ashamed to proclaim her illness to the world. "It must be told," she says...
Bush proved as Governor that he knew when to compromise and proclaim victory. In 1997, when he couldn't get his ambitious tax-reform program through the Republican state senate, he settled for a $1 billion tax cut--and bragged on it all the way to a landslide re-election. A politician, he learned back then, can sometimes get as much by avoiding a fight as by winning one. And that's a rule of the road in Washington and Austin alike...
...Unity-shmunity, says Rush Limbaugh. All afternoon as I drive south toward New York in the rain, Limbaugh hoots and brays on the radio: Men cry Peace! Peace! But there is no peace! Let sentimentalist headline writers proclaim A TIME TO HEAL. Let Chris Matthews of "Hardball" go all soft and teary at the noble Gore concession; let the New York Times' columnist Tom Friedman claim that Gore, in his concession, "took a bullet for his country...
...their Muslim and northern rivals in politically and ethnically motivated violence. While Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, the U.S. State Department and the Organization of African Unity called for new and free elections, the French hurriedly supported Gbagbo as president. This sealed Gbagbo's resolve to proclaim himself as president though he was far from having a national mandate...