Word: starkest
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While the initiatives seem to appeal only to policy wonks, the effects are long ranging and represent clear partisan differences from tax rates to the health care system. The choice between opposing ideologies is perhaps starkest on these issues, and is creating more vigorous debate than the humdrum race for the top of the ticket...
...starkest evidence that we are living on short rations came in recent days with the events of Ratgate. Journalists who should have known better - and would have, if there were any controlling grown-up authority on the National Desk, any intelligent superego left to say, "Spike it, it's a phony" - worked themselves into a state about the idea that the Bush people had commissioned a campaign ad containing the word "RATS," subliminally flashed on the screen in the midst of a discussion of "bureaucRATS" or? "DemocRATS."? The diabolical idea (a brainwashing trick that the GOP's mind-control people...
Lien, Xuan, Nhung and Huy have never met, but they are from the same generation--those for whom the war never happened. Children of one of the starkest generation gaps in the world, they have no interest in hearing about the hardships their parents endured in a war that ended a quarter-century ago. All four are Vietnamese but have ambivalent feelings about Vietnam, a country no longer communist but not yet democratic or free...