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...strength of the two-party system and the bane of third parties is this: the big parties co-opt the little parties' ideas. REAGAN adopted the anti-Beltway resentments of populist GEORGE WALLACE as surely as F.D.R. waylaid the assaults of socialist NORMAN THOMAS. This year, reform belongs not to Reform but to McCain, whom Ventura might even endorse. It certainly means less theater. And while that's less...
...Debating is the bane and the blessing of a politician," he said...
...have in Nigeria singled out corruption as the greatest bane of our society," he said...
ACHING WRISTS That bane of typists and others who spend long hours at the keyboard, carpal-tunnel syndrome, seems to be more common than originally thought. As many as 1 in 5 people who complain of tingling in their hands may have the ailment. The condition, which is a form of repetitive-stress injury, frequently occurs when the same motion is repeated over and over, compressing a nerve in the wrist, with all the painful consequences...
Hashim Thaci is on unfamiliar ground. The Albanian guerrilla leader, once the bane of Serbian forces in Kosovo's hinterlands, has arrived triumphant in Pristina and is undergoing his first rite of passage as an aspiring politician: dinner with TIME. Looking out across a table laden with the best postwar cuisine available--three platters of chicken franks, canned tuna and tomatoes--the 30-year-old rebel answers questions with a voice at once shy and calculating. Trying his best to toe the Western line, he assures us repeatedly, "We will live up to the obligations given...