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...could McCain's father Jack, who followed his father to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and into the service as a submariner, possibly live up to the stories of Admiral McCain routing the Japanese at the Battle of Leyte Gulf? By rising through the ranks to take command of the entire Pacific Fleet, with 85 million sq. mi. as his domain. Young John was not at his father's change-of-command ceremony, but he writes that "I have always believed that for that one moment, my father, so hard driven by his oppressive desire to honor...
...Bush's status as a party insider, Bradley has been unable to make much of Gore's closeness to the reins of power. Bradley, who trails Gore in all 15 states that vote in the March 7 Super Tuesday primaries, has the monumental task of derailing the second-in-command to a president with high approval ratings at a time of unprecedented national prosperity...
Imagine that by 2025 music will be available on command, as will anything else that can be reproduced in the digital domain. Most of the recorded music in the world will exist on a variety of servers, and it will be possible to download instantly any piece of music to whatever portable playback device you might be using. If you're in your car and want to hear (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding, you'll be able to call it up instantaneously on a playback device that will make today's MP3 player look clunky...
...team faced the daunting task of trying to defeat the Tigers (2-3, 2-0 Ivy), who despite no wins entering the meet, were ranked eighth in the nation in indoor track. Unfortunately, Princeton impressively took command of the races and ran away with the meet, defeating Harvard (4-2, 2-2 Ivy) 79-49. Nevertheless, the Crimson responded with a narrow defeat of the Bulldogs...
...military leader who engineered the ouster of former dictator Suharto - while on a two-week world tour pitching Indonesia to foreign investors. But Wahid appears to have moved skillfully and stealthily to isolate his security minister from his former comrades in arms, courting generals and reshuffling the top command to the point where Wiranto would have been unable to order up a coup...