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...Whew. None of the ideas were exactly new, and there weren't many details, and none of them addressed the Democrats' weakest issues, national security and foreign policy. But they had the virtue of matching the public mood, which seems to be shifting back toward Clintonian moderation after a season of Republican neglect of long-term economic and social planning. The current corporate jitters over health care and pension costs indicate that it may be time to revive discussion of a national universal-coverage plan; the public annoyance with high oil prices and the endless war in Iraq suggest that...
...only because California, famously narcotic, began to sap his energy and sharpness. More and more of his entries dwindle into local gossip and silly worries about his boyfriends and his weight. He was always better suited to being a camera than a mirror. Yet even at his weakest, he earns our trust with his entirely human cries of "God, make me pure--but not just...
...fight." Less than three hours later, before a roomful of reporters, DeLay addressed a Texas grand jury's charge that he and two political associates conspired to funnel $155,000 in illegal corporate campaign contributions into Texas legislative races. He called it "one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history" and the prosecutor who brought the case "a partisan fanatic." That night, anxious to show he's not a recluse, he introduced Rudy Giuliani at a Friends of Israel banquet. DeLay even made an uncharacteristic round of the cable shows, hinting darkly on CNN that he would soon...
...Katrina and its aftermath demonstrate our misplaced priorities: cutting taxes for the rich instead of shoring up infrastructure and maximizing corporate profits at the expense of the environment. A nation that abandons its poorest, weakest citizens to the vagaries of a glorified free market shouldn't call itself civilized. Betsy Rim Phoenix, Arizona...
First, Kuhls states that he stands proud because his school “still adheres to the ideals of the true student-athlete.” (Let’s leave aside the fact that, according to factors we’ll discuss later, Cornell has the weakest admissions standards of all the league’s schools.) He goes on to imagine a hypothetical Ivy League—under the athletic scholarship policy—in which the member institutions would admit a recruit “with an SAT score of 400 or an ACT score of nine...