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...real life, the "box of chocolates" line is seldom enough. And then Gumpism risks devolving quickly into a mindless, heartless conservatism where, if the next guy over is having a rough time of it, it's not because America has failed to grapple with the real and complex problems that face it -- it's probably because he isn't sufficiently upbeat. Or not decent enough. Lacks family values. Reads insufficiently of the Book of Virtues...
...health-care reform that he has given short shrift to Democratic candidates hungry for support. Mikulski, who sees herself as the protector of the Senate's women, griped about Wilhelm's refusal to spend another $1 million on advertising in California, where Senator Dianne Feinstein is facing an extremely rough challenge from Republican Congressman Michael Huffington. Wilhelm had already invested $1 million in California. Overall, in fact, he has devoted a total of $10 million to date to the midterm races. That exceeds by far what previous chairmen spent. But Democrats are desperate this year...
South Korea's president, Kim Young-sam, offered to provide the North with a modern light water nuclear reactor -- the kind that doesn't produce wastes that can be used in nuclear weapons -- if the North proved it was not making atomic arms. Those are the rough terms of the agreement that North Korean and U.S. negotiators reached Saturday before adjourning talks till September. A point of tension: The North, which hasn't responded to the overture, rejected a Southern proposal for Red Cross talks on reuniting 10 million family members separated since the Korean...
...might have languished for a while in jazz clubs and coffeehouses now move in nanoseconds from the dance clubs and gangsta corners. Through MTV and the trendier magazines, and whatever other express routes the mass media command, they get passed over to mass-marketers who shear off the rough edges and ship them to the malls. So body piercing and ambient technomusic and performance art and couture motorcycle boots and the huggie drug Ecstasy are shipped overnight throughout the merchandise mart that is America...
...Sailing Rough Seas...