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...choice but to go on active duty. What happened 35 years ago should not be an issue for either Bush or John Kerry. What should matter are their records as President and Senator. David S. Alkek Dallas "The X Files of Lt. Bush" stated, "a gap in service was not unprecedented ... members of the Dallas Cowboys served in the Guard and routinely disappeared during the football season." Ah, I guess if a long absence was O.K. for pro football players, then it was also O.K. for Bush? Margot C. Milner Rémuzat, France Who Is Kerry, Really...
...gap between the extreme left and the extreme right grows ever wider, the rhetoric becomes louder, shriller and more grandiose. It takes a bomb of an accusation, no matter how ridiculous, to get anyone's attention nowadays. The voters have heard little or no objective discussion of the candidates' platforms. Mike Stempo Bethlehem...
...final two games were all Harvard, with the Crimson jumping out to 11-4 leads in each. In the second frame Dartmouth closed the gap to 16-11, but Harvard responded by taking eight of the next ten points. The Big Green managed to make the game competitive, pulling within six late, but aces by Schweitzer and Ogbechie helped the Crimson seal the deal...
...assaults rose, the overall crime rate dropped for the first time in five years, and the French started feeling safe again. "People were very worried about crime," Sarkozy recalls. "The élite, the pundits, said, 'There is no threat. People just think there is.' I helped reduce that perception gap, and acted on those real fears." Now he wants to take his approach to the Elysée. Is France ready to put Sarko in charge? Sarkozy, 49, has no doubt. During a conversation with TIME last week in his top-floor office overlooking Notre Dame, he rejected the view...
...that much separating the two,” Tavani said. “Maurer is a very athletic kid, and has tremendous speed. Coming out of spring, he had an edge. But Pat has been through the battles here, and as we went on, he closed that gap...