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Enter Ross Perot, a paranoid hoist by his own self-regard who could nonetheless end up as Bush's secret weapon. Most observers are focusing on the state-by-state matchups -- whom Perot will hurt more in which key states, a crystal-ball exercise whose only safe conclusion at this point is that Perot hurts either Clinton or Bush or both or neither. Meanwhile, Baker & Co. believe that victory requires blowing the current campaign dynamic across the board; surgical strikes won't do. "If Clinton fractures anywhere, he will fracture everywhere," says a Bush campaign official. "Perot serves that possibility...
...five with a red bracelet has passed out in the crowd. Two workers rush over, hoist him by his spindly limbs and lay him down beneath a shade tree on the far side of the courtyard. The boy is suffering from severe dehydration, and the nurse hastily inserts an intravenous tube, hooking the bottle to a branch. It is too late. As the boy's eyes roll back beneath fluttering eyelids, an older woman gently presses them shut. The boy came from the village of Malwuen, 34 miles away, where both parents and eight of his brothers and sisters succumbed...
...wreaked by these storms. So it was with Andrew, a ^ simple name for people to curse, fear, blame and remember. Andrew proved a most powerful, if petulant, child, rampaging across the Bahamas and the populous tip of southern Florida and into Louisiana's Cajun country, with strength enough to hoist trucks atop buildings, destroy houses and vaporize mobile homes, impale yachts on pier pilings and even strip paint off walls. With winds up to 164 m.p.h., Andrew proved more expensive than Hugo, which ripped through the Carolinas in 1989, and more destructive than any of the recent California earthquakes...
...offices of the Perm regional soviet and the city council. Two empty plywood panels are all that identify the former Communist Party headquarters. But if Russian democrats hope to consolidate the victory they won over hard-liners at the barricades of Moscow, they will have to do more than hoist flags and close down provincial outposts of the Communist Party apparat. They must begin filling empty store shelves, building more apartment blocks, cleaning up pollution and saving military factories from turning into rust-belt relics -- in effect, they must correct the economic and industrial carnage of seven decades of Communist...
...percent cap would still hoist my rent by $270 over the next two years," Edbrooke said. "That doesn't strike me as a good idea. I think a set dollar amount would be more reasonable...