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...longer will a soft-voiced speaker accuse another candidate of egregious crimes while somber music plays in the background. No more will opposing candidates be pictured in black-and-white photographs that look like mug shots. No longer will we have to steel ourselves against advertising lest we react too favorably to words that twist the truth. We're done with that...but only in the political process...
...same effect. Surely, we can learn from the lessons of painkillers and apply them to political campaigns. Words, and especially negative words, can turn people off to entire processes. With the bleak portrait of government facing them in the media every day, Americans in the best-case scenario would react with apathy, and in the worst case with some action, at the words of those who exploit fears and tensions...
...sign that things were going right, freshman pitcher Kathleen Brown caught a line drive with her hip. Well, sort of--the ball fortuitously lodged itself between her side and her throwing hand before she could react...
...least a portion of the system so that workers could establish individual retirement accounts and invest in stocks and bonds. Still, swift action is unlikely. It's an election year, after all. Bill Clinton and Bob Dole will surely avoid supporting a solution without knowing how voters will react. But a loud and necessary conversation about the future financial security of all Americans will finally begin this week...
...nonsense of universal guilt--a sneaky bravado posing as self-accusation--has yet to show up in the wake of the slaughter in Scotland. What happened there was so surprising and so unrefractedly awful that it was almost impossible to react dishonestly to it. The mind simply filled with pain and disgust, and pure incomprehension...