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...White House is not the only place infected by fin de regime gloom. It looks as if much of the government has been left Home Alone, without an adult in sight, making do at best, wreaking havoc at worst and squabbling like children over who is to blame. FBI Director William Sessions finds himself under investigation for ethical violations -- the victim, says his wife, of a smear campaign by his enemies within the bureau. Meanwhile the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Justice are engaged in an unseemly fight over which one of them issued misleading information about...
...care"--8 times ."Trickle down"--6 times .Americans are "working harder and making less"--4 times ."Hunky-dory"--Only once ."Character"--5 times, ."Tax"--18 times ."Tax and spend"--3 times, for a total of 7 ."Trust"--3 times ."Experience"--Twice, but no `Who do you trust' ."90/90 hind-sight"--Once ."Budget deficit"--Five times ."Gridlock"--Twice ."Servant of the people"--Twice, for a total of four times ."Electronic town hall"--Only once ."The White House is a bully pulpit"--Only once, for a grand total of four times ."It's pretty simple"--Twice ."Froot-Loopy"--Once, mercifully...
...EVER SAID PEACE AND DEMOCRACY WOULD come easily. Sixteen bloody years after they were granted abrupt and unprepared independence from Portuguese rule, the southern African states of Mozambique and Angola finally have peace in sight. In Angola, two weeks after the country's first democratic election, the contenders seemed at last prepared to accept the outcome of the vote. In Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the guerrilla resistance movement Renamo, finally signed a peace pact last week...
...common good in America. Tolerance must become an idea that is honored and respected, particularly toward nations that are different from us. But hunger should not be tolerated. It's a moral principle that people should be able to eat a meal when they want to. The sight of hunger any place on the globe should be banished...
...work, sometimes in a disguised form. Looking at the great white belly-bulge of his Drunken Silenus, 1626, one sees it as gross and comic. Yet there may be something more behind it; namely, the sarcophagus figures of Etruscan bigwigs, each displaying his un-ideal paunch, a common sight around Rome...