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THIS IS not necessarily a bad thing. If it is publicized that the average campaign chest is getting larger and larger, paranoid legislators will work even harder to keep the cash flowing in, and, overworked and exhausted, all the old legislators will die. Only one class of people rich enough to levy the funds necessary to run will be left: lottery winners. Thus elections will be completely democritized, since eligibility to public office will be decided by colored ping-pong balls in an air machine...
...meet's scorekeeper, Jamie McInnes, yelled "Halt!" to stop the match, but he was drowned out by the cheering crowd as Yale's Johnathon Bender placed his weapon on Rothwell's chest...
...easy loping walk through the meadows, Moses sings a warrior song. There is a falsetto line of rapid narrative in these songs that is interrupted with a chorus of bass organ tones fetched from deep in the chest -- low, menacing warrior iterations, animal noises proclaiming war beneath the almost soprano narration. Moses is performing both the falsetto and the deep, sinister chorus. The deep tones of the chorus are like the lowest register of a fierce harmonica. The song is about the Masai clans, about old drought and famine. An old laibon says, don't worry, because the warriors will...
There is a warrior lope that goes along with the song, although Moses does not give it the full treatment now. Chin and chest jut forward at the assertion of organ tone: Hunnnnnnh! Hunnnnnnnnh! The Masai know how to look dangerous, and sound dangerous. And the history of East African warfare confirms that they are dangerous. But the visitor wonders why the hands of the men are so oddly soft...
...endure the endless fleabites that come from relentless questioning on the campaign trail. But unlike other potential candidates, Cuomo does not need to scrounge for attention; he is sure to draw crowds, and reporters will trail him like stardust wherever he goes. He has a $4.5 million war chest left over from his landslide re-election and an aura that will quickly put him on a par with Gary Hart as a Democratic front runner...