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...opinion polls during the last two weeks of the campaign, the overall shape of the race never changed. Campaign Hotline, the daily political newsletter, counted 196 national surveys after Perot left the race on July 16. Bush did not lead in a single one. Clinton's advantage in early autumn in most polls ran in double digits. Growing doubts about Clinton, Perot's dramatic re-entry on Oct. 1, the independent's feisty performance in the debates and his saturation-advertising campaign injected suspense into the contest. Still, most surveys continued to show Clinton clinging to a lead of several...
When New York financial wizard Jack R. Meyer took over as head of HMC in the autumn of 1990, his mission was to resurrect a bleeding giant...
...times. Now he's lusting to make a curious grad student (Virginia Madsen) his charnel bride. Borrowing from Stephen King and Freddy Krueger (while paving the way for a batch of Candyman sequels), director Bernard Rose deftly juggles sense and slaughter. This is clever, spooky stuff, with a lingering autumn chill...
...nothings who cannot see beyond the tail of reputation behind them and the promise of greatness before. Such souls are not to be admired, but pitied, for they fail to understand that we live and die, that we depend on others, that their achievements are as ephemeral as the autumn squirrel's nut store...
...late summer or autumn -- evidenced by the sloeberry, which was then in season -- and a sudden storm and drop in temperature while the Iceman was crossing the crest may have forced him to take refuge in a basin 3 m to 5 m (10 ft. to 16 ft.) deep, ridged on both sides. There he died. Writing in last week's issue of Science, a team of experts suggested that the Iceman "was in a state of exhaustion perhaps as a consequence of adverse weather conditions. He therefore may have lain down . . . fallen asleep and frozen to death...