Word: act
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...watched those pictures. "I could see he was overcome," Eskew says. And so when she called his name, Gore marched out into the crowd, fought his way to the stage, and then Al Gore did something hardly anyone in America had ever seen him do: commit a spontaneously emotional act. He grabbed his wife, kissed her carefully, and then something overcame him and he wrapped his arms around her even tighter and gave her the most fervent kiss any politician has ever planted on a wife in public--a big, face-sucking whopper that caught Tipper off guard, silenced...
Bush kept to himself, stayed on the phone, worked on his speech, practiced for the debates. Everyone was whispering about it; some couldn't quite believe it; but everyone was a little relieved, a little proud; and everyone knew the real score. "He couldn't act out too much," said someone who was there. "His mom would have killed...
...quite a show, so many lefties ganging up on a guy for having the gall to act like--how best to describe it?--such an old-fashioned Democrat. You might expect the target of such vitriol to be squirreled away in a bunker somewhere. But Nader seemed no more folded in on himself than usual. Visited several blocks from the White House in the dumpy town house that served as his campaign headquarters, he was unrepentant and unsurprised. "Well-intentioned cowards," he called his critics, whom he finds unforgivably tolerant of a poisoned system in which both major candidates dance...
Democrats of all stripes admire Gephardt for his ability to communicate with both liberals and moderates and then quell their spats. But the balancing act may get tougher: of the 10 seats that Democrats took from Republicans, most will be held by conservatives like Mike Ross of Arkansas and right-of-center moderates like Rick Larsen of Washington State. What's more, with a large number of aging Democratic Congressmen nearing retirement, Gephardt will have to take the lead in recruiting new candidates to replace them. In other words, a guy who has so far been thwarted from two ambitions...
...appreciate the Yugoslavs' revolution, but we cannot treat Milosevic as the sole source of evil. He was only the leader. What about the people who empowered him and supported his regime? The proper course of action is not simply to unhorse a single person in an act of fury but to re-create the country, to give it a democratic framework. That will not be possible without an honest settlement with officials, judges and everyone else who created and ruled in Milosevic's corrupt system. How do I know? In Poland, we went through the same ordeal 10 years...