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...Sunday. Although the NFL gave Cleveland another franchise two years ago, the agony continues - the Browns have mustered only five wins since their reincarnation, and just fired their first and, until now, only head coach. To many Browns fans, Modell and his Ravens are anathema; the Giants, though bitter rivals of the Browns in the '50s and '60s, will be very popular in Cleveland this weekend...
...well as legal principles are at stake, which ones prevail? In a nationally known right-to-die case, Pete Busalacchi battled Ashcroft for years over the right of a parent to end the life of a comatose child with no hope of recovery. The long fight left Busalacchi bitter. "It was a matter of one person in a high position inflicting his religious beliefs onto a family," Busalacchi told TIME. "Is John Ashcroft's religion better than mine...
Friends say Ashcroft's defeat did not leave him bitter; his loss, after all, was nothing compared with his opponent's. He had been battling Mel Carnahan, the man who had succeeded him as Governor. It was a fierce and unfriendly contest right up until the day three weeks before the election when Carnahan and his son died in a plane crash. Ashcroft's graceful handling of the tragedy and his narrow defeat at the polls ensured that among other things, it would be Carnahan's widow Jean--who was sworn in to the Senate in her late husband...
Your articles on Bush provided exactly the kind of information that I as a Democratic voter needed to read after the bitter battle for the presidency. You helped me see more of the person beyond the politics. If anyone can move us away from the partisanship that stagnates our growth and well-being as a country, President-elect Bush seems to be the man. KRISTIN LEAH ANELLI Shrewsbury...
Maybe I'm bitter that I don't have DHA's. Maybe I'm angry that I found time to pull myself away from Tony Hawk long enough to study 180 "Alexander the Great" slides crammed with more insignificant detail than Dennis Miller's commentary, only to have my final turned into a Wesley Snipes action movie...