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...suspend disbelief for a moment. Assuming the surplus does come through, what would the tax-cut plans really do for people? Bush says under his plan, a hard-working family earning $60,000 would be spared an additional $2,050 in taxes; under Gore's, he says, they would save nothing. But Gore points to an eerily similar-looking family and says just the opposite. So who's lying...
...Olympic discus thrower from Australia, Werner Reiterer, who admitted to spending about $12,000 a year on steroids and human-growth hormones during his career, said a majority of Australian athletes used performance enhancers and were encouraged to do so by Olympic officials. In Cuba, track officials refused to suspend world record-holding high jumper Javier Sotomayor after he tested positive for cocaine, and Jamaican track officials reacted similarly after sprinter Merlene Ottey tested positive for steroids...
...easy to see why, when you look at what they are watching: "Survivor" and other examples of so-called "reality TV." Americans want to watch real people in real situations (or at least ones that allow them to suspend their disbelief), finding their way without a script to solutions that are never entirely predictable. Compare that with the cheesy four-day infomercials put on by two parties doing their best to look just like each other - just what is the difference between a "Compassionate Conservative" and a "New Democrat," anyway? - and it's obvious why only C-SPAN junkies...
...sunk in this summer of real-world television. While we can see plenty of people plucking lettuce from their teeth from cameras hidden behind real mirrors, it's really so much better when it's fake. So what if the Cold War is over? See Hapgood and suspend disbelief. It's better that...
...slap in Al Gore's face), there is a great deal about the bill that makes many abortion rights advocates very nervous. The logic of the bill (an innocent life should not end because someone else commits a crime) leads neatly into basic pro-life theory: If we suspend a pregnant woman's execution out of respect for the "innocence" of the fetus, how can we justify any abortion? Because after all, one fetus is as "innocent" as the next...