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Here is a story with three angles. One is Bill Clinton's seemingly incurable tendency to get himself slimy. The second is that it would be odd to have an American president who is married to a fellow able to raise unrestricted amounts of money for his foundation and pursue his own international agenda. The third is that there are problems with installing the same two families over and over again in the White House. Clintons offer two-fer; Huckabee wants a miracle Washington -- With metronomic regularity -- the rhythm may arise from some strangely shared metabolic urge, which may explain the mystery of their marriage -- the Clintons say things that remind voters of the aesthetic reason for recoiling from them. Aesthetic considerations even cause many Republicans -- a coarse commercial breed, they are notoriously insensitive to higher things, but they are not immune to the repulsive -- to hope, against three decades of evidence, that Democrats can be sufficiently sensible to nominate Barack Obama, even though Hillary Clinton would be more vulnerable to John McCain. Playground-enhanced malls: good for economy, bad for teens Competition with superstores is the first reason I conjure up in favor of playgrounds in the middle of malls. Superstores with food, clothes and electronics at prices that can't be beat may seem a convenient way to shop, but they do not offer much entertainment for young children forced to tag along. Letters to the Editor |
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