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...what was hopefully a misprint, Chicago Democrat Rep. Rod Blagojevich summed it up in the Times: "There are some wounds out there in the labor community that need to be heeled." Any card-carrying Daley knows a thing or two about that...
...resignation Thursday of Gore campaign manager Tony Coelho comes after weeks of speculation about his continuation in the job, for which he was selected last year when the veep's campaign was floundering. While he is credited with bringing discipline to the operation, he has also been a lightning rod for criticism. Gore has asked Commerce Secretary William Daley to replace...
...Harvard can't escape the fact that it's often viewed as a 500-pound gorilla, and it becomes a lightening rod," Power says. "In a political setting, it makes the challenges of creating a constructive dialogue with neighborhood groups even more difficult...
...have to hand it to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who has built an impressive career as the hectoring moral lightning rod of American family life, telling people what they don't want to hear about how they conduct themselves and especially how they raise their kids. Through her books and syndicated radio show (soon to become a TV show), Dr. Laura preaches a reactionary gospel, begging for a return to 1950s family values and dissing the choices of an entire generation--my generation--that wants to "have it all": fabulous careers, love lives and families. Dr. Laura is so ripe...
...corrupt Boss Hogg and his henchmen showed how antiestablishmentarianism had percolated, post-Watergate, into America's most conservative precincts, prefiguring the antigovernment politics of the coming decades (whereas the movie just shows that John Schneider and Tom Wopat need to fire their agents). Look at the Dukes' hot rod, the General Lee, with the Stars and Bars flying, and you can see Tom DeLay pulling up in the rearview mirror...