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...threw a Democratic Convention, all about compassion and tolerance and inclusiveness. Now the Democrats have a vice-presidential candidate who talks about God as eagerly as any evangelical Republican. Lieberman describes himself as an "observant Jew." Those are words that just begin to describe how thoroughly he tries to match his understandings of the world to his understandings of the Bible. Lieberman is not only the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate but also an Orthodox Jew--or "Modern Orthodox," to use the term that describes Jews steeped in biblical studies yet, more than the ultra-Orthodox, inclined to believe...
...almost 2,000-sq.-mi. jungle in Southern India. Here, he has allegedly killed more than 2,000 elephants for their ivory tusks, felled thousands of sandalwood trees to smuggle their aromatic and expensive bark and murdered at least 120 people. Veerappan is more than a match for local police. For the past decade, a force of 600 commandos has been combing the forest in India's longest-running manhunt. It has yielded nothing. Why not? It is often said that the bandit bribes politicians and policemen to tip him off about commando operations. But he also has a network...
...preseason match between the San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots at the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, was my first football game in 21 years. If ABC hired Miller in part to bring in a new audience to aid Monday Night Football's slumping ratings, I fit the bill. I'd grown up to be a suspicious female who prefers the plaintive nihilism of Hank Williams Sr. to the "rowdy" antics of his Monday Night Football theme-singing...
...First, just two days before the Reform party convention opens Thursday in Long Beach, some procedural Rashomonics between the party's Perot and Buchanan wings turned into a shoving match that had to be broken up by police. Then the 35-odd Perotistas stormed out of the hotel, went down the street to another one and declared themselves the one true Reform party...
Bush uses such slogans as "Prosperity with a Purpose" and "Compassionate Conservative" to distance his campaign from the hard edge of Bob Dole and the anger of Pat Buchanan. But do his and Cheney's records match the kinder, gentler rhetoric...