Word: squeamishness
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...Come into this race if you want, but you are not going to take this party back to the days of Rockefeller Republicanism, because we aren't going to let you.'" He calls Dole and Gramm "leap-year conservatives" who shuttle to the right every four years but are squeamish moderates at heart. So this is the Buchanan Dilemma: Will red-meat conservatives who love Pat continue to support him right through the convention, even at the risk of helping re-elect a President they revile; or will they make a pragmatic decision to fall back and support the candidate...
...Seven" is not for the squeamish, but if you feel up to it, you owe it to yourself to see it. If you are repulsed by what Quentin Tarantino does, beware; "Seven" makes "Resevoir Dogs" look like "101 Dalmations." This movie is in an almost-new realm of brutality, and gets there not by showing needles slammed through breastbones, as Tarantino is wont to do, but rather by showing the aftermath, giving description and letting you imagine things that are infinitely worse...
Such topics make most men squeamish, but Dole's candor is likely to help him. His decision to release a detailed nine-page set of his medical records last week could go a long way toward reassuring voters that at 72, he is still in robust health. The average man who lives to be that age can, according to actuarial tables, expect to live an additional 11 years and four months. Dole's health report shows him to be solidly above average for this stage of life. "It's remarkably unremarkable," says Dr. Mark Williams, 45, a geriatrician...
...third page contains a catalogue of the enemy soldiers' penises that were sent to the Egyptian Pharaoh in 1300 B.C.--and that's far from the worst item Zacks has dug up. Bestiality, severed and bloated genitalia, rape, child molestation and other delicacies figure prominently. If you're squeamish, avoid the description of the (unsuccessful) penis-enlarging lotion...
...second virtue of buying Mexican goods was also driven home with jarring force last year. Enriching our neighbors is surely a more civilized way of staunching illegal immigration than California's Proposition 187, which in its harshness made even a few supporters squeamish. The case for NAFTA has always focused on the long term: that freer trade would slowly boost prosperity on both sides of the border, notwithstanding acute growing pains; and that by making Mexicans less threatening neighbors, it would eventually mute the raw nativism that is surfacing in California and elsewhere. That case looks at least as strong...