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Wendy Gramm, wife of GOPpresidential contender Phil Gramm, was released from a West Virginia hospital today after being treated for heat distress. Gramm, 50, collapsed Tuesday after skating 105 miles of a cross-Maryland tour on a hot and humid day as part of her husband's campaign. The 52.5 hilly miles between Frostburg and Hancock proved too taxing...
...weather in New England can get a bad rap. Yes, there was a hurricane a couple of years ago. Yes, temperatures can reach the high nineties. Yes, it can get very, very humid--almost stifling. And yes, this particular summer, is expected to be unusually warm. But most evenings and mornings, the weather is pleasant. A fan will cool off a bedroom, classroom or office. If the heat gets too oppressive, there is an easy antidote--water...
...easy being a woman at Harvard. I heard those words more than four years ago, on a humid April afternoon, standing in one of the corridors of my high school with my acceptance letter from Harvard clutched in my hand. In front of me was a woman whom I particularly admired, one of the deans who had given me incredible amounts of encouragement and support over the years. Moments earlier, she had showered me with congratulations, telling me with a broad grin how proud she was and how confident she was that I would do well...
...weather on that day was scorchingly hot and humid. The courtyard where the party was held was canopied by ancient oak and maple trees. There was a podium, decorated with the school crest and with flowers wilting from heat exhaustion...
Ironically, Nethercutt's strategy is precisely the same one that took Foley from the rainy state of Washington to the humid city of Washington in the first place. In 1964 Foley was a politically inexperienced Spokane lawyer with boundless energy and a shy smile, who set out to unseat a 22-year Republican House veteran. While the incumbent trumpeted his track record, battle scars and hard-earned seniority, Foley exploited a prevailing mood of anti- incumbency in the electorate. The upstart triumphed...