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...trouble tallying the returns, and the results are still incomplete. The state party's figures give Gephardt 31% support, Simon 27%, Dukakis 22% and Jesse Jackson a respectable 9%. Simon found the results galling; he finished a close second, yet his post-Iowa prospects were widely reported as near hopeless. Dukakis' mediocre finish was a fitting reward for a fuzzy campaign; yet he jetted off to New Hampshire with the euphoria of a MacArthur returning to the Philippines. At a Democratic dinner the day after the caucuses, Senator Ted Kennedy joked, "Only eight years ago I finished second in Iowa...
...many, the fetal-tissue transplant raised a troubling question: Should doctors be allowed to use tissue from intentionally aborted fetuses to alleviate an otherwise hopeless condition? The Baby Gabriel case focused on even knottier dilemmas: Should laws defining death be rewritten to allow the "harvesting" of anencephalic donors? Should their existence be prolonged solely to enable doctors to take their organs...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangles in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...prepare for that rainy day, America's banks are facing the painful task of giving up on their most hopeless loans, taking the losses now rather than putting them off. Last week Bank of Boston, the 13th largest U.S. bank, said it plans to write off $200 million of its total $1 billion in Third World loans and set aside $470 million to pay for losses it might sustain on the rest. While other banks, led by New York's Citicorp, announced huge set-asides earlier this year to cover losses on Latin debt, the Boston bank's move...
...fact, I honestly hoped that * I would, sparing further grief for many people I loved. Dying, I thought, was the best thing I could ever do for them. The idea of living without alcohol could not occur to me. I preferred the idea that I was a hopeless case...