Word: resistance
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...Although the Massachusetts primary is important, November's presidential election will be even more significant. For many students, this will be their first opportunity to help choose a U.S. president. In the upcoming elections, we urge all voters to focus on the current issues and to resist being swayed by the barrage of slick political advertising designed by campaign spin doctors...
...Soviet Union. His tireless defense of accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk was partly justified. There's substantial evidence that Demjanjuk was not the Butcher of Treblinka he was accused of being in an Israeli court. But he was indisputably a camp guard. Even so, Buchanan could not resist comparing him with Alfred Dreyfus, the French army officer who was entirely innocent of the charges of treason brought against him by an anti-Semitic French officer corps at the turn of the century. And sometimes words speak louder than actions. During the lead-up to the Gulf War, which...
...Barkers said that although their donations have been anonymous before, they just couldn't resist the lure of having their name carved on the beautiful new center...
...ashamed to confess it," Barker said. "I think it's too much, too glorious, but the answer is we couldn't resist...
...average rational but open-minded American to resist the opinion-framing tendencies of the media and to evaluate individually and fairly the First Lady of the United States? The real problem for suspect political figures in general and for Hillary Rodham Clinton in particular is that more often than not, suspicion equals guilt. Once the media casts its shadow of doubt across one's political resume, the practical verdict--namely, how that individual will now be viewed--is sealed...