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QUICK VOTE Would you support human cloning if it would help cure diseases such as Alzheimer...
Pundit fatigue: rarely seen inside the Beltway. Too bad the only known cure is being married to a Vice President. Having transcended argument for its own sake, she dropped a controversial book project on academia in favor of writing one for children, America: A Patriotic Primer ("A is for America, the land that we love; B is for the Birthday of this nation of ours"). Scribbled in the margins of newspapers during the 2000 campaign, it's as uncontroversial as you can get, although, no doubt, a few colleagues from her old life would find "N is for Native Americans...
...golf pro get over the yips and straighten out his love life. Or perhaps they have confused the world's best golfer with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers to cure another black person, only white people. Both characters are examples of a recurring Hollywood fantasy that might be called the Magic Negro--strange black beings who come to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, then use them to solve white folks' mundane problems instead...
...tickle the markets too. Except it didn't work out that way. A respected executive whose blunt talk the President at first found refreshing, O'Neill never emerged as a persuasive advocate for the Administration's economic policy--in part because he never accepted its central belief that the cure for any ill is more tax cuts. So it made a kind of Washington sense that Cheney was the one to telephone O'Neill one afternoon last week with the news that the President had decided "to make a change...
...stricter workplace smoking restrictions should only be one part of a comprehensive program to cure the smoking epidemic. Boston should also raise cigarette taxes to New York’s level, which would both decrease the number of smokers as well as the number of cigarettes smokers consume. Preliminary data from the Big Apple indicates that increased cigarette sales in the surrounding areas and on the black market have not compensated for the decline of cigarette sales in the city itself...