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...reluctantly trot out his war wounds. Now he's practically flaunting them. The ad is meant to show Dole as something other than a Beltway big shot, to humanize the chilly candidate and contrast him with his putative opponent, a fellow who agonized about getting out of the draft. The ad harps on Dole's character largely because character is Dole's only message, and his staff hopes to compare his with that of the current occupant of the White House...
...capturing the excitement of the news and of the people who make it each week, and by recounting in full color the tales and the debates that form the first draft of history, we have the power to make the world--and you, and us--more interesting each week...
...convincingly female. Not that she should cry or lose earrings, but as things are, she is simply a stick-figure lawyer who happens to have a woman's name. Had Patterson hit the replace key on his word processor and swapped "George" for "Caroline" just before finishing his final draft, it would be fairly hard to tell there had been a change (excepting the fact that the book would then become a gay romance...
...replace the current five-rate system. But it will leave to the politicians the question whether to keep, trim or discard the mortgage-interest and charitable write-offs. It also will leave open the possibility of retaining the tax incentives for retirement plans like the 401(k). A partial draft of its report does not say where the flat rate or the personal exemption should be set. Although the draft does not contain it now, the report might even allow for the possibility of two rates...
...called in the Washington Post "the most disliked member of Congress." They've learned how far he is willing to go to achieve his larger goals: shut the government down to make a point with the President; invite lobbyists not just to lobby, but to draft the laws themselves; and give a huge tax break to his party's allies at the expense of services for the poor, with the explanation that this is what it takes to keep his Republican coalition together...