Word: speakers
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...that brings people to hopeless irony, and that redemption too will be effected not through logic but through passion and commitment.The use of the exemplary self is the attempt to convince not through argument but through moral suasion: if I can act this way or believe these things, the speaker suggests, so can you. And aphorism does not necessarily proceed through channels of reason but rather through inspiring an emotional response of identification, an instinctual rather than an intellectual...
...ugly budget that?s already breaking the fiscal bank in a hundred other ways. These same GOPers, of course, have endorsed Bush in droves, so most of the reaction Thursday was trying not to sound hurt ("It's a free country... he has a right to speak out," sniffed Speaker Dennis Hastert). Bush backed them on the tax cut, and his aides insisted that he would back them in the future. But with Democrats scrambling to tie Bush to a Congress not nearly as charming as he is, the man who would be president is clearly putting his "compassionate" before...
...Staff John Podesta. We hope that Congress and the Clinton Administration will listen to the universities and maintain, if not increase, current research efforts. The programs are threatened by the federal spending caps enacted by Congress during the 1997 budget agreement, which allowed President Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich to claim victory while delaying the hardest choices for a few election cycles. The result is that even in a boom economy with a government surplus, many vital programs will have to be cut for the spending caps to hold. Although the spending caps are likely to be exceeded...
...objects of his care and devotion. Both cause him plenty of discomfort. How Hata handles his past and the constant tension between social acceptance and his chronic sense of not belonging finally have little to do with his origins. Chang-rae Lee, whose first novel, 1995's Native Speaker, announced the arrival of a new talent, makes sure of Hata's humanity by giving him an inner life independent of ethnicity and suburban status. But the contrast between Hata's appearance and his reality would surely surprise most of his neighbors, especially when he confesses, "I feel I have...
...EMERGENCY! Key supporter: HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT How it works: Call expenditures like the $4.5 billion allocated for the 2000 Census "emergencies," so they don't count under the 1997 spending caps. Small hitch: If the Census--held each decade for 210 years--is an emergency, what's Hurricane Floyd...