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...exhausting for Bush's handlers, most people expect Bush to simply stick to his guns and ride out the storm. Of course, the public, as Bush likes to remind us, is on the governor's side: While fewer Americans support the death penalty today than the last low ebb in 1981, 66 percent still approve - a figure that should inspire a certain amount of confidence in the Bush camp. The other ray of sunshine for the Bush camp? Al Gore, who also supports the death penalty, has kept his mouth shut as Bush struggles with this issue, a sure sign...
...spike, coming on the heels of a sustained downturn in serious crime, brings some metropolitan areas back on track with 1997 and 1998 homicide figures, and has social scientists and city police departments in a dither. This year's increase, after all, is as mysterious as the previous ebb, and there's nothing more disconcerting to urban policy makers than inexplicable fluctuations in crime...
...English essayist Thomas Fuller composed a lovely sermonette on anger in 1642. "Anger is one of the sinews of the soul," Fuller wrote. "He that wants it hath a maimed mind... nor is it good to converse with such as cannot be angry, and with the Caspian Sea never ebb and flow." But Fuller set up sensible rules, such as this: "Take heed of doing irrevocable acts in thy passion... Samson's hair grew again, but not his eyes." He acknowledged the disfigurement: "Had Narcissus himself seen his own face when he had been angry, he could never have fallen...
...completely committed to their faith, and equally committed to their respective congregations as a priest and a rabbi. Thinking of themselves as a modern "God Squad, like the new cops who want to shake up the precinct," each tries to enliven their services when the energy level begins to ebb by spicing up their sermons with stand-up comedy. At one point, Jake actually says, "But seriously, folks," to his congregation as he brings in a gospel choir to serenade his temple. But when their old childhood friend Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman) comes back into their lives, a complicated love...
...accounts, she has got herself back up--swearing off bad substances and giving her voice the rest it never quite got following her throat surgery. A year and a half ago, when she approached lyricist Fred Ebb, her longtime collaborator, about helping to put together a Broadway show, he said he'd do it only if she assured him she would get herself into shape. "I told her if I couldn't sit in a room and listen and be proud of her, I'm out. I said I don't want to see you fail." Now, claims Ebb...