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...course, I really do mean to brag. After all, few Americans outside Iowa and New Hampshire have met even one presidential candidate. By contrast, I am fortunate enough to have worked closely over several years with two of them. As the race gets serious and the fringe candidates fade away, this amazing coincidence gives me a unique perspective on the question all Americans will soon have to face: Nader or Buchanan...
...ball and playing for overtime, the Leopards tried to win. Beginning on its own 20-yard line, Lafayette struck gold when third-string QB Marko Glavic found Phil Yarberough streaking down the sidelines for 55 yards. On the Princeton 15, Glavic again connected with Yarberough, this time on a fade pattern in the end zone with just two ticks on the clock...
...snap of a football or an act of civil disobedience, the execution is in the timing. Ten minutes before the big game in Forest City, N.C., pastor Danny Jones waits ever so patiently in the press box at Chase High School. As echoes of "the home of the brave" fade away, a local radio broadcaster passes him the microphone. In the stands below, Trojan fans who have brought radios and boom boxes in anticipation of this moment tune in and turn up the volume. "Father in heaven, please bless the game," Jones intones. "Give us safety; give us a good...
Meanwhile, his detractors can gain satisfaction that his antics will remain forever marginalized. Completely removed from the spotlight, his chair-throwing, referee-harassing theatrics will have almost no audience and fade away from ESPN's purview...
...prescription drugs covered for Mom and Dad. If his base came home and the waitresses tuned in, a top Gore aide explained, Gore could tighten the race and then turn his attention to more affluent swing voters with a sunnier, centrist message, and the battle hymn could fade again to the background...