Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Jerry Springer Show" is "absolutely, unequivocally voluntary. They call us--and they are told what the parameters are well in advance. You don't have to talk about a subject you don't want to and no one may be talked about who isn't there...
Even faithful Democrats felt their teeth itching. "I found myself saying, 'Just don't say anything, Al,'" said Ohio Congressman Ted Strickland. "I don't think he has to try to win every point and cram in every bit of information about every subject. The issues favor my party and my candidate, and because of that it's a little disconcerting that a good argument, a good debate point, would be diminished by the way it's presented...
...each. And that's not counting the market value of the gold medallion or the expenses-paid trip to Stockholm. After the ceremony, formerly impecunious researchers will find themselves awash in funding, showered with speaking gigs and offered their pick of jobs. Their opinions will be solicited on every subject under the sun, including matters light-years from their area of expertise...
...your story on Zachary/Aurora Lipscomb, the boy who is being raised as a girl [BEHAVIOR, Sept. 25]: the diagnosis of "gender-identity disorder" seems to have been based mostly on his fashion preferences. Why not a more detailed report on this subject? You could put together a wonderful article showing the jeweled and embroidered robes, the wigs, the earrings and necklaces that virile men of other times and cultures have delighted in. Maybe you could even find someone to explain why it should be a sign of psychiatric illness for a 21st century boy to like them. PATRICIA S. BOWNE...
...doesn't leave much to talk about on the campaign trail. Jim Lehrer was prescient enough to devote a full 45 minutes of the debate to foreign policy, and the challenger thrilled supporters by sounding acceptably presidential on the subject. But after Bush made so much of America "speaking with one voice" during any ongoing foreign crisis, what's a little ol' Texas governor to do in the meantime? Mark time on Medicare in swing-state land (Pennsylvania, specifically) and hope voters make it deep enough into their newspapers to read about...