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...nations to dedicate themselves to that which will truly benefit all humanity. Conversely, the weakness and lack of success of the same body are largely the result of nations acting recklessly and being unwilling to bring about the unity and peace that are so needed and desired. VIC SALVO Sacramento, Calif...
...critics' response came last week: a campaign to muster public opposition to the FDA's new rules and to target individual companies and their precious trademarks. The mock advertisements for "Campbull's Experimental Vegetable Soup," with the advisory, "Warning: This Product Is Untested," is only the first salvo. Some 18 other brand-name U.S. companies are on a tentative hit list, including General Mills, Coca-Cola and Kraft...
...course, on Commencement Day, with thousands of parents and alumni in attendance, there is much that could be said. In many respects it is an editorialist's dream come true--the audience, the timing all beg for some final salvo of criticism. But, even a journalist must occasionally step down from his pedestal of observation and join in the celebration...
...they heard only the parts of the speech where McCain named names and threw fire bombs. Evangelicals have never been a monolithic group; many of them have their differences with the Robertson crowd and are far more tolerant than the Bob Jones wing. And yet many took McCain's salvo personally, as an attack on their convictions and their role in the Republican coalition. Bush's 9-point margin in Virginia the next day owed a lot to the fact that Christian conservatives turned out in large numbers and voted for him 4 to 1, an even higher ratio than...
...Bush team doesn't pretend that it never worried about how McCain's speech might play, especially in states like New York and California. Had it been more about the entrenched Establishment in general and less a personal salvo against Robertson and company, the speech might have worried them more. "There are artful ways of making this work," chirped a senior Bush official, "but McCain is inartful." Bush allies delighted in pointing out the inconsistencies that have been piling up for a while now. McCain attacked Bush for speaking at Bob Jones University, even though Congressman Lindsey Graham...