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...quick review: In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that only three shots were fired - all from behind the President, all from the Texas School Book Depository, all from the bolt-action rifle of Lee Harvey Oswald. End of story. (Beginning of conspiracy-theory industry.) In 1979, an investigation conducted by Congress's House Assassinations Committee disagreed - a fourth shot, which missed, had been fired from behind a white picket fence on that grassy knoll. In 1982, however, a special panel of the National Academy of Sciences insisted the fourth shot was random background noise, probably static...
...That's a tricky bargain. A big increase risks losing the support of some of the bill's strongest supporters, including Daschle, whose defection would give plenty of other Democrats the cover they need to bolt. (It was so much easier for Democrats to oppose soft money before they became as good as Republicans at raising it.) Big increases in the hard-money limits, where Republicans still have an advantage, would make any claims of reform a sham. Says Senator Paul Wellstone: "It puts even more big money into politics...
...broken bolt. Still no word from the crew. I'm getting ticked. They should be talking to me. My head is pounding. I'm fingering my necklace. My legs ache...
...Crimson wants to return to form after a lackluster 2000 season, Lentz's all-around game must figure prominently in Coach Walsh's plans. Moreover, this season might be the last in which the Crimson can rely on the man in the mask for leadership: He may bolt at the end of the year...
...looking for these tremendous signs from God, which is a tendency that is typically associated with someone who is more naive than Sharon should be.AG: Yes, but she begins to mistrust it as she goes on. She really falls for some of those cliches about religion, that a lightning bolt is going to hit you and you will be reborn. The problem with that is that all of those signs are external. She really wants God to sweep her away so that she won't have to be responsible or change from within at all. The real transformation is going...