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...Clinton said on the steps of the old statehouse in Little Rock on Tuesday night. "Tonight we proclaim that the vital American center is alive and well. It is the common ground on which we have made our progress." Four years ago, in that same place, the crowd was raw, the night was a party, dressed in Windbreakers and jeans and set to the tune of Fleetwood Mac. This year it was a press conference in a blue suit on a red carpet while a canned orchestra sprayed Aaron Copland: "'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift...
...think one of the areas in which we're very raw--or inexperienced in--is penalty killing, in particular up front," Tomassoni said. "We graduated some pretty good kids who did an excellent job of penalty-killing last year..it's early and we're not expecting [penalty killing] to be necessarily in sync. The more experience we get--the more we get to practice--I think the better we're going to get in that particular part of the game and eventually it will become a strength...
...against Islam." That is precisely what the Muslims did say. But either he didn't watch the next several minutes of our news broadcast or ignored the remainder of the report. I added in my very next sentence that the "Israelis say they have touched nothing holy, merely a raw political nerve." Elsewhere on World News Tonight, we made it clear that the Muslim claim was, technically speaking, ambiguous at best. I recognize Krauthammer's license as a commentator, with a particular interest in this subject, but our job is to put such matters in context. On this occasion...
...least two-thirds of the vote each election since his first term, despite the forestry conflicts that persist in this district. He opposes most salvage logging efforts--a burning issue here--but has come down on the side of labor and is against NAFTA, GATT and the exporting of raw lumber to Asia. His ability to manage these divergent interests has helped keep him in office...
...past six years, Sawyer, a public-health statistician, jumped into the fray. He urges citizens of this heavily agricultural district to take a hard look at what Republicans have not done for them, arguing that the kind of loose regulation that G.O.P. power brokers like Combest promote is a raw deal for farmers...