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...means clear. From a purely instrumental standpoint, there is little evidence (at least in national elections) that boosting voter-turnout fundamentally alters the complexion of an election. Had the recent presidential campaigns been re-run with everyone voting, Clinton still would have defeated Dole and Bush the elder, Bush still would have trounced Dukakis, and so on, as far back as such statistics are kept...
...When the elder Tsukahara and Kasamatsu were competing, Japan was a gymnastics powerhouse that captured the team Olympic gold at each of the Games from 1960 to '76. The pair racked up more than a dozen medals between them. Naoya and Akihiro are competing on a less formidable team that lags behind the dominant Russians and Chinese. Still, Japan's fortunes may finally be changing. At the World Championships in Tianjin, China last year, 23-year-old Tsukahara nabbed the silver in the all-around event. With top Russian gymnast Nikolay Krukov recovering from a pulled Achilles tendon and China...
Things in Shanghai grow ever stranger. Sarah, now married to an elder statesman visiting the city, suddenly proposes that she and Banks run away together. "I suppose I was surprised when I heard her utter these words," he allows, but raises an objection: "The difficulty is my work here. I'll have to finish here first. After all, the whole world's on the brink of catastrophe. What would people think of me if I abandoned them all at this stage?" By this point in the novel, normal narrative logic no longer applies; after telling Sarah...
Well, the elder Bushes and the elder Gores did not give birth to codfish - nor did they look on their sons with a jaundiced eye. That's left...
Exactly eight years ago this week, I walked into President George Herbert Walker Bush's White House (actually, it was the old Executive Office Building) to visit a friend, Jim Pinkerton, who was then a domestic affairs policy adviser to the elder Bush. I was stunned by Pinkerton's pessimism about Bush's race against young Clinton. It was only mid-September, I said. But then Pinkerton introduced me to some of the people on the White House staff and the Bush campaign. I saw Pinkerton's point: No energy, no ideas, a stupefied sense of entitlement, brownouts in blue...