Word: destructive
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...joke. Derrida wonders "what is a word for consuming itself all the way to its support (the tape-recorded voice or strip of paper, self-destruction of the impossible emission once the order is given) to the point of assimilating it without apparent remainder?" Buried in that parenthesis (and several other places) is an allusion to Mission Impossible: this tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds. I thought it was funny...
...Crimson must win its remaining games with Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown, and then hope that Yale and Columbia self-destruct down the home stretch...
Kerrey dances around everything. So far in his nascent stumping, he's shown a tendency to spout support for whatever sounds interesting or popular, and a refusal to mount a strong offensive against President Bush--without which the Democrats will self-destruct. Beyond some broad strokes of Democratic posturing, Kerrey's just not there. And when you do pin him down, his ideas all seem just to come down to personal experiences--especially Vietnam...
BOOKS Why the Democrats self-destruct so often...
Watch your opponent self-destruct despite big bucks. Clayton Williams, Republican candidate for governor in Texas, spent more money in his campaign than most people would know what to do with--$9 million of his own fortune and $20 million altogether. Tom Luce, a fellow at the Institute of Politics who lost the Republican primary to Williams, said that Williams privately acknowledged that he intended to buy the Republican primary...