Word: instincts
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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People who know him say his decision will be heavily influenced by that famous gut instinct...
...prattling on in his wonderful English and recalling his days as a banker in New York, asking whether certain restaurants are still open. He has just finished meeting with his generals. Surely they have discussed the killing that is under way. What should you do now? Suddenly the moral instinct alone does not answer. You are on your own, trying to find a direction in a world in which there are no marked paths. You are sitting across from pure evil. What...
...first generation exposed routinely to pornography. They share the weird and unreliable assumption - almost universal now - that for something to be genuine, it must be shown. And if it is shown, it is credible. It is real. I grew up learning to make the opposite assumption: My deepest instinct tells me that if something is paraded in public, then it must be false - a mere performance...
...instinct to attack has been on display this summer against Bush. First came Gore's response to Bush's plan to allow people to invest some Social Security money in the stock market. Bush's idea was appealing to many Americans, and some Democrats, including Lieberman, have been willing to consider the idea. But Gore trashed its trillion-dollar costs and came up with his own idea for tax-free investment accounts in addition to Social Security (that lets him call his plan "Social Security Plus" and Bush's "Social Security Minus"). Next came Gore's mild distortion of Texas...
...Just as women can be brutally unfoolable about other women, most men have a shrewd instinct about other men's reliability. That is Al Gore's greatest challenge this week in Los Angeles...