Word: meanness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Here's what I mean. New York sidewalks are about eight feet wide. And there you are, walking up Madison Avenue and coming in the opposite direction is a family from Omaha, Nebraska, mother, father, three children, walking five across, taking up the whole sidewalk, so that anyone who wants to get by must either trudge into the street, hug the wall of a building, or bust through like a fullback on third...
...also strange. Were they children or adults? Or some kind of hybrid? In their early years, the characters were volatile, combustible. They were angry. "How I hate him!" was the very first punch line in "Peanuts." Charlie Brown and his friends could be, as the cartoonist Al Capp said, "mean little bastards, eager to hurt each other." In "Peanuts," there was always the chance that the rage of one character would suddenly bowl over another, literally spinning the victim backward and out of frame. Coming home to relax, Charlie Brown sits down to a radio broadcast whose suave announcer...
...human rights issues. Negotiations between the government and the rebels are going nowhere, and there's a growing sentiment in Colombian politics to stop negotiations and seek a return of the one-third of the country they've handed over to the guerillas in earlier deals. That would probably mean a bloody fight to the finish. Demands for aid to Colombia (and even its neighbors) are only likely to increase...
...that the Oslo Accord took shape during the last Bush administration, with very little direct involvement by the U.S. And, of course, wider U.S. interests in the region from oil prices to Iraq policy require that Washington do some work in rebuilding relations with moderate Arab regimes. Which may mean the Bush campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem may be destined for the backburner...
...losing the prescription-drug issue to Republicans by blocking the bipartisan plan. But the election is over - by week's end Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson will be George W. Bush's new secretary of health and human services, and Clinton just left him a message: bipartisan doesn't always mean better...