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...brashness and the energy of the new generation of conservatives. Kasich may be the only Congressman ever evicted from the stage at a Grateful Dead concert. (A misunderstanding, he says of the 1991 dustup at Washington's R.F.K. Stadium: he had been invited onstage by his friend, country star Dwight Yoakam, the Dead's warm-up act.) He has also been known to break up the monotony of long flights by unfolding his six-foot frame in the aisle and doing push...
...participation by registered voters is any indication of the strength of American democracy, than it was far stronger in that period than in recent decades. It was also a period in which such great presidents as Theodore Roosevelt class of 1880 and Dwight Eisenhower were elected. Finally, American democracy was strengthened by such reforms as women's suffrage and the direct election of senators. Perhaps Ms. Streisand isn't really interested in the strength of American democracy, but rather the ability of the cultural elite to proselytize their own antitraditional morality...
...decades since the end of World War II. The Germans won. After the failure of the Normandy invasion, a humiliated General Dwight D. Eisenhower retreated into retirement, Winston Churchill fled to exile in Canada, and virtually all Europe came under the domination of the Nazis. An Albert Speer-designed monument to the "thousand-year Reich" now dominates Berlin, the SS has become a peacetime police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler...
Reagan's act of candor will undoubtedly raise public awareness of Alzheimer's and give support for research a powerful boost. In that way, he will walk in distinguished company once again. Franklin Roosevelt launched the March of Dimes that ultimately conquered polio. Dwight Eisenhower's frankness about his heart disease changed the way the world treated this affliction. The publicized bouts of Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan with breast cancer led thousands of women to undergo mammograms...
...From the beginning, it has been an uphill battle That hasn't changed," said Dwight D. Robson, director of operations. "In the Herald poll, the governor dropped 13 points, while we gained five points...