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...Peterson as a Democratic John McCain; detractors say he is McCain without the charisma. But Nelson and Florida's senior Senator, Bob Graham, sent top Democratic fund raisers to Hanoi last spring to lure Peterson home. As he and his Vietnamese wife Vi Le were packing in May, Reno broke the blind-siding news that she too might run--setting up a potential north-south rift that could weaken the Democrats as they prepare to battle Bush...
...have a history, the San Francisco slugger and me. Years before he began his assault on Mark McGwire?s homerun record, Bonds broke my heart. Back in the early ?90s, he belied his bravado, choked stupendously during key playoff games, and left my beloved Pirates dangling just short of the World Series. Two years in a row I sat watching the hated Atlanta Braves play for the championship, gnashing my teeth and cursing Barry Bonds...
...MONICA, ALL THE TIME: Who can forget those splendid days in 1998, when L?Affaire Lewinsky first broke? Not Marvin Kalb, the director of the Washington office of Harvard?s Shorestein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy. Kalb is still scolding about Zippergate coverage in "One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism" (Free Press; October). According to PW, "The problem, Kalb finds, is that the corporate concentration of ownership of news pushes the bottom line above all else. And with the proliferation of news outlets, especially in cable TV, reporters must titillate rather than...
...ideas—like slavery—orators at Yale ridiculed him. In the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required Northerners to return fugitive slaves to their Southern owners, college speakers throughout the country argued fiercely in favor of the act. They criticized those who broke the law to protect humans from being sent back to slavery...
...Grand Prix. Then he made a poor start from second on the grid and was overtaken by Coulthard and teammate Irvine. As he tried to force himself back into contention at Stowe corner, his brakes failed and he plowed into a wall at more than 160 km/h. The impact broke the Ferrari's chassis and Schumacher's right leg. An enforced three-month layoff followed. (He was ordered back into the car for the last two races of the season after Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo phoned Schumacher's home and was told by his daughter Gina Maria that Daddy...