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...bring up my past," Duke tells the dentist, "because they do not want to talk about my issues." His issues -- he owns them around here -- are opposition to affirmative action, minority set-asides and welfare without drug testing. "I'm for equal rights, even for white people" is the briefest statement of his program -- and one that usually elicits rebel yells...
...White says modestly, and then suddenly, for just the briefest moment, a look of fierce pride steals over his shining face...
Cheering Derek Mills as he scores on an overhead kick, Pele-style, and celebrates, forgetting about his knee for the briefest of moments...
These lines of reasoning have so lowered expectations for the Bush presidency that some Washington insiders are predicting the briefest honeymoon in history, a gridlock of indecision, even the inevitability of a one-term presidency. In short, President-elect Bush appears perfectly positioned to exceed expectations yet again...
With all three evening newscasts (and a good portion of the morning news shows as well) transplanted to Moscow for much of the week, summit news squeezed out all but the briefest wrap-up of other news. Monday night's CBS Evening News, incredibly, mentioned not a single non-summit-related story. It was, to be sure, a slow news week apart from superpower summitry. But the blanket coverage raised questions of TV overkill. With little substantive news expected from the summit, and the network news divisions already facing severe budget constraints, some wondered whether the extensive TV effort...