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That's an improvement from what Bush was saying last summer. When Al Gore predicted during the campaign that Bush's Texas tax cuts would wreak havoc in the state, Bush joked, "I hope I'm not here to deal with it." He's not--but the problem is dogging his heels just the same...
...American merger has politics on its side. Though there are a few routes, mainly to the Caribbean, where the two airlines essentially share the market, now that Judge Walsh has tossed out the competing bids and blessed the acquisition, the only alternative is liquidation - which would wreak economic havoc on the employees at TWA's bustling St. Louis...
...Jupiter, Fl. was shot in the line of duty. But they should also know that their vice president is sick and that, in spite of the fact that the east coast of Florida will be experiencing five sunny days in the 60s and 70s, major storm systems are wreaking havoc on both coasts of America...
...after all the hoopla, Mother Nature did not listen to the meteorologists. Certainly, the storm did wreak havoc in isolated locales, including the beachfront of Massachusetts. Yet, overall, the nor'easter was a pseudo-blizzard. Mother Nature has once again humbled the National Weather Service and the Weather Channel. The meteorologists reminded us of political pundits on election night--a little too certain, a little too fast. The raw power of nature to confound human expectations and defy human control was revealed, not in an earth-shattering storm, but in the lack...
...vouchers would actually be the kiss of death to any education reform package. Certainly at this point, says David Paris, professor of government at Hamilton College and an expert in education reform, the word "voucher" has taken on a political life of its own, and its introduction could wreak havoc on the education debate. "If the conversation turns to vouchers, the air will be poisoned," he says. Not surprisingly, perhaps, in this era of perfectly bisected public opinion, recent Zogby polls show Americans split on the issue of vouchers, with 45 percent opposed and 48 percent in favor. That division...