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This debate will reveal contrasts that lie deeper than either candidate’s prior successes. George W. Bush stands not only on an accomplished record, but demonstrates a sense of clarity and leadership necessary to pursue a successful War on Terror. The president, if nothing else, will be straightforward and sincere tomorrow night. This sense of honesty and clear, determined vision will undoubtedly stand in sharp contrast to his opponent’s precarious pessimism, and find a resounding audience with the American people...
...power back in the hands of local communities, give little people a voice, take control away from the insiders - big business, media and bureaucracies - and make the system work for outsiders. "When people ask what Labor stands for," Latham said in 2002, "I believe the answer is straightforward: we are anti-establishment, Australia's natural party of outsiders...
...wants to change, he wants to have physical contact, very solid relationships with someone else, and that woman is the woman next door, Zhang Ziyi. He wants to change, he wants to have direct contact with someone, another person. So his story with Zhang Ziyi is entirely straightforward, there are no second thoughts. He just wants to believe by instinct. And afterwards, when things don't work out well with Zhang Ziyi, he goes back to talking to himself, and writing. Writing is a way to have a dialogue with yourself. You can never compete with something in the past...
...should be engaging in a frank discussion about how the council should be spending its money. This is especially so because of the large new infusion of money into the council’s accounts. But no one benefits from making the discussion on the matter less than straightforward, and that is the major problem with how Friday’s column was presented. If the council is going to mature in its own abilities and in students’ estimations, then members must refrain from purposefully distorting the debate...
Which brings us back to Kerry: To the credit of a candidate laboring against appearing “nuanced,” he has always avoided the straightforward (but disingenuous) political response to lost jobs: various forms of a wall around America...