Word: makeing
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...flag at Iwo Jima, the President professed not to be playing politics: "Amending the Constitution to protect the flag is not a matter of partisan politics . . . It's an American issue." While implying that defending the Bill of Rights was not quite American, Bush left it to others to make the partisan connections. "That's what he's got Dole for," said one aide...
...Dole, the Senate's Republican leader, went right to work. Holding a small flag as he stood in front of the White House, he noted that any Democrat's opposition to the amendment "would make a good 30-second spot." In an unusual interjection in his dissenting opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens had taken a shot at such cynicism: "The integrity of the symbol has been compromised by those leaders who . . . seem to manipulate the symbol of national purpose into a pretext for partisan disputes about meaner ends...
What is a TV viewer, particularly one who has AIDS, to make of this story? Is the treatment a miracle cure? Or is it a mirage that cruelly raises the hopes of AIDS sufferers -- the medical equivalent of cold fusion? No one, and certainly not journalists, can know the answers. The case illustrates the press's growing lack of restraint in medical coverage, especially where AIDS is concerned. CNN called the treatment "experimental and controversial," but by leading off newscasts with the story and cutting to the hospital for frequent live reports, the network was in effect trumpeting the blood...
...discuss with those among the Palestinian Arabs who are opposed to autonomy." In Israel that is a code word for strictly limited self- government; the remark thus implied that Israel will talk only with Palestinians who abandon the idea of an eventual independent state. Any such condition would make it quite certain that no Palestinians would come to the bargaining table...
...down-home humor. Still, Blount is good company whatever he's writing, even if his puns ("Li Pung lizards!" as a comment on Clementine's China policy) hit the wall and dribble down like tossed eggs. And even if some of the jokes are merely gags (he wants to make love, she has a headache, he's hurt, and she says no, a political headache: she has to fire the Defense Secretary). That is a lot of evens, evened out by an unexpected development, which is that the two main characters actually come to life and play a convincing love...