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...than Bush intended. Sununu's efforts almost torpedoed the summit before it started. Democrats immediately took them as confirmation of their darkest suspicions -- that Bush is again trying to portray the Democrats as the high-tax party, by euchring them into proposing an increase that he could either virtuously reject or pretend had been rammed down his throat as the price for shrinking the deficit. "Now I wonder if this ((summit invitation)) is a good-faith effort or whether political traps are being set," said House Budget Committee chairman Leon Panetta...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
...blue uniform . . ./ A young nigger on the warpath,/ And when I finish it's gonna be a bloodbath." Another group, Public Enemy, has been charged with anti-Semitism in their lyrics and statements to the press. But their songs are also critical of blacks who reject their roots, of the brothers and sisters too busy partying to see the problem. P.E.'s new album, Fear of a Black Planet, qualifies as dance music that is dense music: soul with a vengeance and the most challenging street art that rap has to offer...
ESSAY: I Was an Ivy League Reject and Survived...
...candidates for the post will be selected by a panel of bishops, priests and lay people chosen by the church, with a Thatcher appointee in charge. The panel will propose two names to the Prime Minister in order of preference. She gains further leverage through her power to reject both names and demand new ones, although such a move would be extraordinary...