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...when the Republican President is down to 28% approval ratings, when the economy is tanking and world affairs keep breaking Obama's way, it shouldn't be heresy to recognize that McCain needs an improbable series of breaks. Analysts get paid to analyze and cable news has airtime to fill, so pundits have an incentive to make politics seem complicated. In the end, though, it's usually pretty simple. Everyone seems to agree that 2008 is a change election. Which of these guys looks like change...
...conservative lawyer for the important U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Chicago. Soon the Senate will vote on whether to confirm him, and the result is being watched intently. For Manion, 44, has become the unhappy symbol of a new turning in the Reagan drive to fill the federal bench with more ideologically congenial judges. By measure of all but the furthest-right yardsticks, Reagan's court appointments in his first four years were certainly conservative. At the same time, they were generally celebrated for their legal acuity at least as much as the nominations of any recent...
...fishing on the Chesapeake Bay with my father and watching him go out of his way to clear the waters of debris left by fellow fishermen. Man has used his planet as a giant dump, and even now as other creatures are choking on refuse, man chooses to fill the world with more perils. If we cannot stop ourselves from throwing a beer can overboard, how can we effectively manage nuclear weapons, atomic energy and gene splitting. My hope is that we can; my fear is that we cannot. James R. Vernon Fort Worth The picture of the herring gull...
...says Rick Birle, president of Zynolyte Products, a major spray- paint manufacturer based in Carson, Calif. Nonetheless, the proposed spray tax may prove to be the lesser of two evils. The 15 city council members are also considering another measure, which would require store owners to force purchasers to fill out registration forms with every sale. The council hopes to vote on both ideas early next month...
...given free flights to London. Even Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got into the act when she invited 30 of the sweepstakes winners to join her at 10 Downing Street for tea. For its part, Pan Am is offering free car rentals and two-for-one ticket deals to help fill seats on its Europe-bound planes. The airline is heavily promoting its new ''Alert'' security measures, which place armed guards and sniffer dogs in most Pan Am terminals. TWA is offering similar incentives, but last week the troubled airline, which has just weathered a ten-week strike by flight attendants...