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Whereas other Presidents might have viewed such direct involvement as unfair interference with the free market -- or maybe just declasse mercantilism -- Clinton, the putative populist, has turned out to be a natural in the role of salesman. It is not, of course, a selfless role: Administration officials maintain that by boosting U.S. exports, 13 million new American jobs can be created by the year 2000. To drive home the point after the President helped close the Boeing deal, Vice President Al Gore visited a Boeing plant in Seattle to announce the good news to cheering workers there...
...defense was fired up in game one by senior Ann Kennon, who had nine put-outs, and short stop Amy Reinhard, who contributed a selfless three-put-out, eight-assist performance...
...suggest that he does know.) Only two of our winners "have actually done something new since the Eisenhower administration," says Mayo. The four highlighted women--"a columnist, a future saint, a dead white woman, and group of women who revere a dead white cause"--represent nothing but the "humble, selfless, obedient woman." Mayo seems to prefer the woman whom feminists these days dress up in the flashier attire of pride, control and power...
...article, his critique of Mother Teresa is reason enough to go hunt this one down at 14 Plympton, because surely Mayo's is the first to find fault with a "future saint." Calling her "Miss Teresa," Mayo derides her selection on the basis of her being "a humble, selfless, obedient woman," saying that we conservatives probably didn't choose her for her true merits--that is, for her devotion to the poor. Never mind that Council member Brian E. Malone noted these characteristics in opposition to the "radical individualism" that feminists support, or that he noted that Mother Teresa...
...strange to think that these conservatives could muster up the courage to applaud someone who has given her life to helping people systematically oppressed by an unjust economic and political system. But the Council was apparently willing to overlook that indiscretion and praise her for being a humble, selfless, obedient woman...