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...after Dole's speech, the soon-to-be-ex-Senator's favorability rating jumped from 43% to 51%. But while a majority of Americans approved of Dole's action, more than three-quarters of registered voters said it would not affect how they would vote in November. Yes, they cotton to the old campaigner a little more now, but still not enough to vote for him. Bill Clinton held a formidable 22% lead over Senator Dole, a margin that suggests Dole was not exaggerating when he said he had a hard task ahead...
Despite intermittent rain, more than 1,500 students came to the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) Quad on Saturday afternoon to listen to bands, win prizes and eat cotton candy as part of SpringFest...
...Cotton Mather's daughter Nanny fell into the fire and burned herself. Mather cried, "Alas, for my sins the just God throws my child into the fire!" The child was a moral adjunct mingling with the Puritan's internal devils. With equal unrealism, some American parents today envision their children as geniuses or angels. Wanda Kaczynski, of course, represented the style of an older generation of parents, but her child rearing bore traces of the obsessive. Later American parents sometimes have a tendency to practice a retro-projection that amounts to a search for their own lost, sweet, brilliant, childish...
...catalog customers, were never far from our thoughts--especially the evening we lingered over jasmine tea with a Mahayana Buddhist monk at the Four Winds Monastery, perched precariously above a roaring tributary of the Ganges. As we sipped to the rhythmic whirl of prayer wheels, I in my all-cotton, breathable Sahib Gear[TM] Punting Pants, Jan in her wind-resistant Amelia Earhart Aviator's Bra, we couldn't help noticing the elegant saffron robe that enveloped our host. The rustic fabric, simple and unfussy, draped beautifully--perfect, as Jan remarked to his holiness, for curtains...
...this week with the signing by President Clinton of the landmark Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act (fair). Touted as the most ambitious effort to bring free enterprise to the farm in more than half a century, the overhaul slashes price supports for staples from wheat to cotton. No crop was to be spared the scythe of reform...