Word: handing
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...Bush's personality is political gold, it was mined in Midland. No conversation with Bush or those who know him lasts very long without loping back to the dusty oil town on the flat plains of West Texas where Bush grew up and then returned to try his hand at business. In the narrative of Bush's life, Midland is seen as a kind of egalitarian utopia. His wife Laura is from Midland, and Bush says he will be buried there. When asked the difference between him and his famously preppy father, the candidate often simply says "Midland...
Several officers had their guns drawn, witnesses said. Suddenly, a gun went off. It is still not clear who fired, only that an officer had been shot in the hand. Jones then lunged behind the wheel of a squad car and fled again. Police showered the car with more than 40 bullets, but Jones managed to drive 1 1/2 miles to the corner of Oxford and 26th streets. There, a hovering helicopter from a local TV station captured the now infamous 28 seconds...
This event, like so much of Ellison's life these days, can be read two ways. On the one hand, it is a grand gesture: the donation by Oracle of 1,100 New Internet computers to the Dallas public-school system. But it is also a flagrant attempt to hype a pet project of his: the inexpensive network computer. This particular model is built and sold by NIC, a company partly owned by--who else?--Ellison. Later, on a CNN feed from a high school social-studies classroom against a backdrop of a few of the donated computers, Ellison will...
National stereotypes are of course invidious. If Canadians wish to disown Gore, and to repudiate the notion that his personality takes its distinctive resonance from Canadian origins, then that is a decision that must be respected. On the other hand, if Gore were elected president of the U.S, American-Canadian relations might prosper as never before...
Canadians, if they are in a bad mood, consider that their neighbors to the south are a hyperthyroid, overprivileged, overbearing, overstimulated, venal crowd, self-important to the point of narcissism. Who can deny it? To the American's cartooning imagination, on the other hand, the Canadian seems - if you will forgive a circular argument - an awful lot like Al Gore...