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...inquiry was a legitimate campaign issue. Many of the candidates danced around this hand grenade, waiting for it to become yesterday's news. "The debate," said Richard Gephardt's campaign manager William Carrick, "is going through an awkward phase, a cartoon phase." But even if the sex angle goes stale, candidates will have to spend considerable time on broader ethical issues...
...want to go to the polls before the elections scheduled for November 1988. Surprisingly, for all the differences between the ruling parties, the power-sharing arrangement continues to be popular with Israeli voters. "The public is tired of ideological strife," says a former government official. "They know ideologies are stale and fossilized, so basically they feel there's no reason to change the government...
Squabbling by posturing and repeating stale lines does not add much to any discussions of politics or values. To be meaningful, free speech should not be trivial. The latest round in the squabble over South Africa is simply petty...
Homeless people have problems, and sometimes cause them; they are not a problem. They are individuals who are not weary of being treated like identical units as they are of eating stale food. We cannot help them all out of the cycle of poverty, but at least we can give them respect...
...give spark to a song with a stale line like "Hold me tight"? How can you best rebel against the "tyrannies of pop convention"? How do you tread the fine line between form and formula...