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Taken together, Bush’s amiable prevarications and Cheney’s clever malice just might spell a winning ticket. In a sense, they’ve already won a personal victory: they have transformed their public image from that of tongue-tied oratorical brutes to veritable acrobats of rhetoric. If that doesn’t count as a flip-flop, I don’t know what does...
...falls to our nation’s politicians. In return for young Americans’ demonstration of commitment to the political process, the candidates need to publicly and directly address issues that appeal to younger voters, including college tuition support and the military draft. But politicians also need to spell out in plainer terms how today’s complex decisions about taxes and social security funding will ultimately affect the up-and-coming generation’s tax burden in the future...
Cambridge and the Square are both the greatest attractions—and distractions—of our collegiate lives. We take part in a self-sufficient ecosystem, a place of intrigue, a cacopolis. Yet almost every student manages to escape the spell by emerging from it during the summer. For now, we must abide by the clock above the Citizens’ Bank: it’s seven past the hour, and time to sprint to class...
...each offering rejoinders in separate paragraphs. It's a clever effect, even if it sometimes feels like a staged reading of a new play that is still a revision away from completion.) Carnegie, along with Lizzy and precocious nine-year-old Wendy, is quick to fall under Lan's spell. They love her cooking and hang on Lan's bitter horror stories of life during the Cultural Revolution. As Lan insinuates herself into the family, she seems not to be usurping Blondie so much as taking her rightful place, exactly as Blondie feared. She watches Lan with Carnegie and Lizzy...
...terrible predicament. Compounding matters was the slipped disc in her neck. "I was in constant physical pain for about three years. It's annoying and very tiring and it makes you very bad-tempered," and, she says, may explain her reputation as a prickly interview. What broke her suicidal spell that day was the sound from a neighboring flat of a man singing a twee Scottish song, Mhairi's Wedding. The prospect of jumping out of a window to the lyrics, "Step we gaily, on we go ?" was more than her resolve could bear. It's a classic Kennedy moment...