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Perot's specialty is clothing demagoguery with a semblance -- sometimes even a facsimile -- of wit and down-to-earth common sense. His call to "shared sacrifice" resonates with the nation's history ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself") and lends a certain credibility to his painful prescriptions. Much of what he proposes is philosophically charming, but the sacrifice he posits would be borne unequally, and his numbers are as questionable as those of his rivals. His pie charts and bar graphs convey heft, but when studied carefully, the bottom line relies on so many dubious...
...optimistic note about the future. The one thing of which I am entirely certain is that she did not feel ready to die. At the age of 44, there were still many things she wanted to do and was going to do. Always radiant and with a very sharp wit, she befriended ecologists and other activists worldwide...
...woman who is happy about having had an abortion. I have met women who are relieved that a child isn't being brought into this world who will have to rely on a mother who isn't going to be there, who has not the means or the wit to raise a child...
...tactic of tarring whole movements with extreme examples? Yes. Does the distinction between fairness and exaggeration matter? Yes -- every bit as much as it does in any other arena of politics or show biz. Says Buckley, first in the modern line of conservatives who mixed sharp opinions with cutting wit: "Anybody who engages in polemics is, to an extent, engaging in hyperbole. But that's as American as a tall tale of Mark Twain...
Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities Wit the Intelligence Community...