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Then Harvard did its all-too-familiar second-half flop. The Crimson did not score a single point down the stretch...
Taxes. Well, this one can never work for the Democrats--not with their spend, spend, spend reputation--but at least this time it will not work against them either. Bush's rather sudden post-election flip-flop from "Read my lips: No new taxes" to "Just ignore this tax increase" has robbed him of legitimacy on this very touchy subject. America is not likely to forget the greatest campaign lie in recent history...
...legislation and a tax-rate cut for middle-class Americans -- will resonate among voters. But like any other incumbent President, Bush has an almost limitless ability to co-opt the agenda. The Democrats have already been forced to respond to Bush's vision of education reform, and his flip-flop on the issue of extending unemployment benefits proves his political suppleness...
...novelty. "Success is like a one-armed bandit," observes Pierre Dinand, a French designer who has created more than 300 perfume bottles, including those for SpellBound and Escape. "To succeed, you need to have a row of cherries. If you have four cherries and one banana, it's a flop...
...directed one commercial hit (Time Bandits) and one cult smash (Brazil). Critics, this one included, went crazy for Brazil; but not many citizens felt at home amid all the astringent whimsy. And the director's next phantasmagoria, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, was a $50 million flop...