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...city of Roswell, N.M. (pop. 49,000), is the birthplace of Demi Moore. It is also home to the nation's largest mozzarella plant. On warm spring nights, visitors deplaning onto the tarmac at the local airport may be struck, in a not necessarily unpleasant way, by the rich, manurelike odor rolling in from the surrounding ranchlands. But none of these things is what Roswell is most famous...
Last week the White House struck again. A story Thompson was eyeing as a centerpiece involved Roger Tamraz, a major Democratic donor who wants to build an oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey. Part of the story broke in March in the Wall Street Journal: the CIA was allegedly enlisted by Democratic chairman Don Fowler to facilitate a National Security Council meeting for Tamraz, who was seeking the U.S.'s blessing for his project. Republicans hoped that juicy details, still buried in White House files, would show "how the system went awry," in the words...
...line slashed across their faces. Wasn't it time that voters heard a voice for "all Canadians" and "not just Quebec politicians?" asked the narrator. Incensed Quebeckers charged the sponsors of the ad, the western-based Reform Party, with bigotry and racism. In the west, by contrast, the message struck a sympathetic chord. The Reform Party went on to capture 60 seats in Parliament, second only to Chretien's victorious Liberals...
These works all have a very simple message at their heart: men and women are so different, they might as well come from different planets--and can't we all just get along? But it is a message with enough of a truthful core that it struck a popular nerve at a very particular time: the early '90s, when it again became permissible for people to discuss gender difference. For this, thanks must be given to Georgetown University linguistics professor Deborah Tannen's groundbreaking You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which perched on the New York...
...conservative twist on a very liberal, cliched argument -- it's not his fault, it's the way he was raised, it?s society?s fault. People in line with McVeigh, the right wing militia, would usually have no sympathy for this kind of argument." Worse, Cohen notes, having struck some sympathetic chords with jurors during Thursday?s emotional testimony by McVeigh?s parents: "There could be a backlash among the jury, whose reaction could be, 'Don't blame us for what he did'." That certainly held true outside the courtroom. "The Waco deal?" scoffed Charles Tomlin, who lost his grown...