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Names possess a peculiar indelible power -- subversive, evocative, satirical, by turns. The name is an aura, a costume. Dickens knew how names proclaim character -- although anyone named Lance is bound to hope that that is not always true. Democrats used to have fun with "George Herbert Walker Bush." The full inventory of the pedigree, formally decanted, produced a piled-on, Connecticut preppie-Little Lord Fauntleroy effect that went nicely with the populist crack that Bush "was born on third base and thought he had hit a triple...
...Dutch Martin Van Buren has descended in whole or part from the three largest white demographic groups. In the 1980s the Democrats tried to vary the mix by fielding Norwegian-Italian and Greek- Danish tickets. Last year they reverted to form and managed to replace George Herbert Walker Bush with William Jefferson Clinton...
...Boston Globe reported yesterday that the investigation will look at an allegation that the two suspended officials, Arts Council Director Annabelle Herbert and Deputy Director Roy Alan Hansen, received $4,000 to $5,000 a year for undocumented expenses not approved by the Council or the city manager's office...
MUCH OF MONDO 2000 STRAINS CREDIBILITY. Does physicist Nick Herbert really believe there might be a way to build TIME MACHINES? Did the CRYONICS experts at TransTime Laboratory really chill a family pet named Miles and then, after its near death experience, turn it back into what its owner describes as a "fully functional dog"? Are we expected to accept on faith that a SMART DRUG called centrophenoxine is an "intelligence booster" that provides "effective anti-aging therapy," or that another compound called hydergine increases mental abilities and prevents damage to brain cells? "All of this has some basis...
...would be the ruin of America was among the nation's great political hobgoblins -- right up there with the Red Menace and the Yellow Peril. Public indebtedness, said Thomas Jefferson, who spent $27,267,622 of the national treasure to purchase Louisiana, is "the greatest danger to be feared." Herbert Hoover, whose policies helped usher in the Great Depression, declared that "government borrowing . . . is a device to load our extravagance and waste onto the next generation." Eventually, though, as Armageddon kept getting postponed and new generations thrived, the issue receded into the more fevered right-wing swamps. Then came...