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...opera. Even after he went for politics, friends say they expected him to be a thinktank policy guru or a professor of political science--a job Keyes says he may eventually consider--rather than a presidential sideshow. Die-hard Keyes supporters--as such people always do--have an intricate, domino theory detailing a Keyes win: Bauer, Hatch and Forbes will drop out, and their supporters will turn to Keyes to form a solid conservative block. Then, once Bush's supporters see a conservative candidate with a substantial following, they'll question whether Bush is such a foregone conclusion and move...
After six years in a Vietcong prison camp, John McCain knows all about the Domino Theory. And three decades later, the Arizona senator still appears to have trains of chips on his mind, hoping that his win in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary is the first one to fall on the way to the Republican presidential nomination. There's just one problem with this metaphor: Domino trains work only when the pieces are evenly spaced. A small piece collapsing into three or four chips stacked together is stopped short. Likewise, the McCain Express could run into a dead stop...
...McCain laid this path well in advance. Nearly half a year ago the Arizona senator decided not to campaign in Iowa and instead focus full-force on appealing to the more moderate voters of New Hampshire. A victory in the Granite State, he reasoned, would set in motion a domino effect leading to the Republican presidential nomination. Well, the first part of the plan has worked, with the polls giving McCain a surprisingly comfortable win over George W. Bush in Tuesday's New Hampshire. McCain took every major voting block in the party, including conservatives, moderates and devout Christians...
...course, it's the fear of being caught napping; if there's one thing the 20th century has taught us, it's not to display hubris in the face of an apparently diminishing threat. But mostly Washington is worried--again, not for the first time this century--about a domino effect...
...famous standardized test, the SAT (presently named Scholastic Assessment Test, formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test), provides the best example of the potential emotional harm to students. According to a report in last month's Newsweek, the long-term effects of the SAT are not negligible. This takes into account the domino-effect theories linking SAT scores to success in life, and the wide range of fields (including unlikely areas such as real estate) that are indirectly influenced to some degree by the SAT. A considerable number of students--the overwhelming majority of the private school population--are beginning...