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...among its victims. Today, in every elementary school of 200 pupils or so, three or four youngsters are likely to suffer from it. Howard Hughes' symptoms included an insistence on having a germ-free environment and all his windows permanently sealed. The schoolchildren are more inclined to count cracks in the blacktop (for them, "Step on a crack, break your mother's back" is frighteningly literal) or meticulously arrange their crayons in neat rows, again and again, to avert some imagined catastrophe...
...Republican presidential coalition crack up in 1996? No, it was already unraveling in 1992, after hinting at weakness earlier. Republican strategists simply didn't understand what was occurring. They insisted their coalition was still young--born on Election Day 1980, when Reagan came to power. In fact, its birth certificate dates back to Nixon's election in 1968, when the South tilted Republican and rescripted presidential politics. By the late 1980s, this coalition, wedded to old ideas, attack strategies and issues, was wearing out. If Michael Dukakis, a caricature of ineffective, low-blood-count Northeastern liberalism, had not allowed himself...
...more heinous Friday classes. No more grueling labs at the crack of dawn. No more accidentally picking four classes with final exams on the same...
Rafferty agreed that Grille owners are committed to ending underage drinking in Cambridge and said they will continue to crack down on students who use counterfeit forms of identification...
...experts say Eldrick ("Tiger") Woods strikes a golf ball so hard that the sound it makes in flight is unique--a kind of whining swoosh, occasionally accompanied by the crack of a club head caving in. The balls that emit this signature sound routinely travel farther than those of any other tournament player...