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...that with all this good news for Perot the prospects for him and his Reform Party seem to be growing dimmer? In a TIME/CNN poll last week, more than twice as many registered voters said Clinton and Dole have what it takes to be a good President compared with those who liked Perot. (Only 22% feel that way about the Texan now, down from 35% in May 1992.) In a three-way race, just 13% said they would vote for Perot, a slide from 19% last September. The major-party candidates seem to have concluded that the American public...
...White Knight. Powell, 59, remains Dole's first choice, even as the prospects of this fantasy ticket grow dimmer. The retired general has no more reason to be thrilled by Dole's performance lately than anyone else. Since taking himself out of the running last November, he has enjoyed his relative obscurity and chafed whenever the spotlight threatened to return. And his wife Alma, who was thought to oppose his candidacy last fall, has turned out to be much more opposed to a political career at this juncture than many of Powell's associates realized at the time...
...planets really is orbiting the Milky Way, some of them should occasionally pass in front of stars in the next galaxy over -- the Large Magellanic Cloud. If you watched this galaxy very carefully for a year or two, you might sometimes see a star getting inexplicably brighter, then dimmer again. If you saw nothing, then there were no MACHOs worth talking about...
Appel's critical stance on modernism is that of a fan, a supporter verging on groupie status. He urges that we "properly appreciate an enriching body of work that can be called `celebratory modernism,' and that we do so before the works in question have grown even dimmer or have disappeared entirely behind the newest academic fog banks." And his point is well taken. After all, Bauhaus vests trust in our aesthetic judgement and hopes for the future. It is a positive statement of mankind's ability to engineer his environment and there's something to be said for that...
...these places, the shock of seeing children fighting fades. It's like entering a darkened room: rather quickly the eyes adjust to a dimmer light. The mind grows accustomed to the sight of a little boy among the men, wearing the same uniform, carrying the same weapon, walking with the same tired swagger. It is from a distance that the reality of child soldiers appalls. Even people living close to the fighting find it easier to forget. Hamed Karzai, the urbane spokesman of the Afghan rebel government, spends most of his time mediating between rival mujahedin factions. Sipping...