Word: righting
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...faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does for new education, health-care and defense programs combined. Are Bush and Gore right about each other? Every campaign serves up a cartoon version of its opponent. But these two caricatures are worth examining, because doing so helps explain how each man would govern, where their records and philosophies are fundamentally different--and where their plans are more alike than either cares to admit...
...until Sept. 28. During a speech in Green Bay, Wis., Bush charged that Gore "has left the vital center of American politics...[and] cast his lot with the old Democratic Party," betraying the reform-minded moderates that Gore helped propel to power in 1992. "The Vice President was seated right behind Bill Clinton at the State of the Union when the President declared, 'The era of Big Government is over,'" Bush said. "Apparently, the message never took...He offers a big federal-spending program to nearly every single voting bloc in America. He expands entitlements without reforms to sustain them...
...industry in which Vogue editor Anna Wintour's decision to wear fur in defiance of animal-rights protesters constitutes a courageous political act, Aucoin's recent assertion that he would never ply his brushes on the face of a right-wing Republican because it would be like "a Jew doing makeup for Eva Braun" marks him as something of an anomaly. Over the past decade, he has worked on more magazine covers than anyone else in his field. On Oscar night, his ministrations are coveted by Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman. Yet he has proved himself as likely to make...
...should be no surprise that it has been impossible to find an expression in ink that can solve the problem. For much of the past seven years, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have been creeping close to agreement on many issues, but not this one. When Israeli right-winger Ariel Sharon visited the site two weeks ago in a bid to boost his political support and reassert Israeli rights to the land, Arabs saw it as an act of such political arrogance that it could only trigger an outburst. In what Arabs call the "Aqsa intifadeh," the uprising of al-Aqsa...
...also 1,300 years old. More sacred to Muslims than any place except Mecca and Medina, the Mount is the single most holy spot for Jews as well. Rabbi Haim Richman, who works at the Temple Institute in the Jewish Quarter, explains, "When the Temple is rebuilt, it goes right here and only here...