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...haven't expressed views on the issue (think David Souter). That can be tricky. Souter has been a disappointment to conservatives, leading some analysts to repeat the old saw that Justices often confound the expectations of the Presidents who pick them. Here it's customary to mention that Dwight Eisenhower, asked to name his biggest mistake in office, replied, "I made two, and they're both sitting on the Supreme Court"--implying that the court mysteriously reshapes the views of those who ascend to it. But that idea doesn't withstand scrutiny, says Harold Spaeth, a Michigan State professor...
...night in April 1944, just weeks before D-Day, like all lonely servicemen, Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower was writing a letter home. "How I wish this cruel business of war could be completed quickly," he wrote to his wife Mamie. "Entirely aside from longing to return to you (and stay there) it is a terribly sad business to total up the casualties each day--even in an air war--and to realize how many youngsters are gone forever. A man must develop a veneer of callousness that lets him consider such things dispassionately, but he can never escape...
...broaden the company's ethnic base without severing its traditional roots? Webre is drawing sellout crowds by cannily juxtaposing blue-chip masterpieces by George Balanchine, Paul Taylor and Antony Tudor with new works by such younger choreographers as Nacho Duato and Dwight Rhoden. And his aggressive outreach efforts include Dance D.C., an ambitious pilot program of inner-city public school dance classes, and low-priced "Beer and Ballet" previews held at the company's studios in northwest Washington...
...jump to headliner status in 2000, with a 70-city North American arena tour running June through October. If older women are more your style, check out Wynonna Judd or Martina McBride. Or for twanging with a bit more testosterone, check out Brooks and Dunn, Clint Black, or Dwight Yoakam...
...Knight's eruptions have been going on for years, but this week, with hilarious solemnity, Indiana University completed a formal investigation of the coach's "pattern of inappropriate behavior." The university might have fired Knight outright, as Dwight Eisenhower and George C. Marshall might have fired Patton. The university might have considered intermediate steps - prefrontal lobotomy, say. Instead, Indiana decided to fine Knight $30,000, suspend him for three games next season, and give him one no-kidding-this-time "last chance" to behave himself. If Knight had been losing basketball games, of course, he would have been...