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This moral and economic crisis is not a failure of democracy. It is a triumph of democracy. For our democracy has voted into office politicians who keep taxes low and spending high, a feat no individual can match. Instead, I believe this crisis is a failure of political leadership, the inability of politicians to make tough choices and to force their constituents to live within their means...
...beat [Dartmouth] on their own course was a pretty good feat for us," said senior Lou Body, who contributed a 79 on the difficult Hanover Country Club course yesterday afternoon. Junior captain Jack Wylie called the win "a bit of revenge," for Dartmouth's relatively easy handling of Harvard last year...
Mehta and the soloists took the second movement a shade fast, but there were some pleasant surprises. Perlman showed his strength by hitting his high notes even better than he did on the recording. He also pulled off an amazing feat by constantly keeping even with Zukerman in volume despite the difference in their instruments timbre and size in this microphoneless (in the theater, not on the lawn) atmosphere...
...book, Breaking the Maya Code. Former University of South Alabama art teacher Linda Schele burst into the epigraphical world. On a 1970 visit to Mexico, she was mesmerized by the ruins at Palenque. Three years later, she was accomplished enough to collaborate with two others in a mind-boggling feat of decipherment: during a conference at modern Palenque, the trio took a mere 2 1/2 hours to decode the history of Palenque and its rulers from the beginning of the 7th century to its fall around the late 8th century -- and got it right...
...disease and buy precious time for patients. In the original test-tube trials, reported last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the drug appeared to prevent some, but not all, HIV-infected cells from producing any new copies of the virus. Thalidomide apparently accomplished this feat by inhibiting a naturally occurring substance called tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Its purpose in the body is to fight cancer and infections, and a side effect of its activity is severe weight loss. In people who are infected with HIV, for some unknown reason, TNF also promotes production...