Word: approaching
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...sometimes the feeling is mutual. Gore views Bradley as a slave to his own self-regard, a man whose sanctimony is an ineffective and even hypocritical approach to politics. Gore's lieutenants love to point out Bradley's contradictions: he spent $2 million on his polling operation in his 1990 Senate race--an early attempt at Clinton-style values polling--yet claims to hate poll-driven politics. He calls himself a crusader against corporate tax loopholes, yet came out in support of ethanol subsidies that chiefly benefit one conglomerate, Archer Daniels Midland, because he wants to curry favor with Iowa...
...main drawback to this approach is that by having so many states' primaries on the same date, candidates would be unable to campaign state to state and city to city. Consequently, they would be forced to rely heavily on mass-media advertising, giving an even greater advantage to those candidates with the largest war chest and turning elections into fundraising battles rather than old-fashioned stump-debates. For a system of group primaries to work, there would have to be substanial campaign finance reform that would allow legitimate candidates free air time to counter their financial advantage...
...Somehow, this approach manages to appear shockingly brilliant rather than random. Such success may in large part be due to the fact that Shakespeare's original work was not itself historically situated; it mixed myth, history and pure fiction to create a world equal parts Ancient Rome and post-medieval Europe. So even though she allows monumental flights of historical fancy, Taymor is able to successfully preserve a greater portion of the original text than has been used in any recent film adaptation of Shakespeare with the exception of Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet...
...harsher sentence. Impassively observing the proceedings, Abraham stared balefully into the distance as his fate was decided; his lawyer reports the boy asked him "What happened?" after court was adjourned. For his part, Judge Eugene Moore made an obvious effort to balance his scathing indictment of Michigan's approach to juvenile justice - which allows children to be tried as adults for serious crimes - and his demands for personal responsibility from Abraham. "We as a community have failed you, but you have also failed us and yourself," Moore said...
...Faced with an increasingly conservative trend in state legislatures, many of which want a straitjacket approach to juvenile justice, Judge Moore was trying to find a reasonable answer to a very complicated question," says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. Abraham's case attracted international attention after Amnesty International showcased the boy, who could have faced a life sentence, in an exposé on the cruelties of the American criminal justice system. "People are torn on the topic of juvenile crime and punishment," says Sanders. "On the one hand, murder is murder, and you can't just let kids run around...