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...affirmative action and taken a much harder line on illegal immigration. He had led the fight to repeal the ban on assault weapons, then shifted positions a year later. He had morphed into a movie critic, of films he hadn't seen. He had called Steve Forbes' flat tax "snake oil" in February but by August had become a born-again supply-sider. "I'm willing to be another Ronald Reagan, if that's what you want...
...Cotton excuses Clinton's lack of direction by explaining, "A truly complex man, it would take years to fully understand him [Clinton]." The problem with understanding Clinton is that there isn't anything to understand--Clinton possesses no ideology, direction, or firm beliefs on any issues. Like a wet snake, if you tighten your grip on Slick Willie at any one point, he just pops out the other end. --Noble M. Hansen...
...There's a snake born everyday" LiBerge says...
...views of Chinese patients stretched out on operating tables, their bodies bristling, porcupine-like, with needles, used to be the fare of National Geographic or colorful travel brochures. Acupuncture--the Oriental practice of piercing the flesh with steel needles to relieve illness--was long as exotic to Westerners as snake soup or the I ching. The mere mention of it to a Western physician would invite a stern, finger-wagging lecture on the perils of quackery...
...Defense William Perry, "are not tied to which party prevails" in the Kurds' conflict. While a few pundits and rivals will blame Clinton for failing to unify the benighted Kurds or come to their direct aid last week, the Administration smartly opted to keep the U.S. out of that snake pit by refusing to engage Saddam militarily on Kurdish turf. Not only were the logistics of fighting there tough--no use of ground troops, high risk to pilots--the political implications with Turkey and Iran were even tougher. Having failed to mold the Kurds into an effective scourge against Saddam...