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...Vice President, communing with the genome led to the child-health-insurance decision. Abstractions beget decisions about real people; facts show him the way. He loves to challenge his staff--"Where'd you get that fact? How do you know it's true?"--and that habit of mind has helped him laser in on Bradley's health-care plan, boring some serious holes in it. Even postepiphany, Gore still lives for what's verifiable, for numbers that add up and moving parts that lock into place...
...right now is to fill his big eyes with a vision of his father, a 31-year-old hotel security guard and Communist Party member who lives in Cardenas, a small town east of Havana. Juan Miguel hasn't cut his hair since Elian left, because it was their habit to make the trip to the barber together. It's a trip they'll have to make in the future on foot, since Juan Miguel sold his 1956 Nash Rambler last month to help pay for the calls he makes regularly to his son in Miami...
With the notable exception of Union's early start, the biggest shock of the ECAC this season is the lifeless record that Clarkson (5-9-3, 0-4-3), last year's champion, currently boasts. The Golden Knights have a habit of starting slowly, but with half the season gone, they alarmingly have yet to post a conference victory...
...should not be censoring ourselves with recently developed international codes, but holding ourselves to our time-tested habit of keeping religious authority at a distant arm's length. Permitting vouchers to be used at sectarian schools--irrespective of their religious affiliation--is a departure from that habit...
...blazes claimed roughly 900 victims, including 140 children. Of course, while these grisly numbers may have finally prompted a response from Philip Morris, they're small potatoes when compared with the annual death toll of people who stick cigarettes in their mouths, not just in their carpets. Changing that habit is going to take a much bigger step - one that the government and, certainly, the tobacco companies have shown no inclination...