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...CANDIDATE] FRED THOMPSON TENNESSEE SENATOR [SIGN OF RUNNING] His $6.5 million request to investigate 1996 campaign abuses [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] No longer a jinx against movie stars in the White House [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] John Wayne [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] That guy in The Hunt for Red October
...brilliance consists in this: second terms are famous for being times of dreary brownout. In music it is called rallentando, a gradual slackening of tempo, a winding down. Dwight Eisenhower's presidency, for example, slipped into senescence in the late '50s. The jinx falls especially on those Presidents who return to the White House on landslides--Richard Nixon, for example, who annihilated George McGovern in 1972, and then, less than two years later, was forced to resign, a step ahead of the Senate's tar and feathers. Lyndon Johnson's great victory in 1964 over Barry Goldwater did not make...
Providence was a new challenge and a perfect opportunity for Harvard to break out of the non-league jinx...
While there may indeed be a jinx on the men's hockey team this season, the Crimson is still committing some fundamental errors that are costing it garbage goals. After bombarding St. Lawrence goalie Clint Owen in a furious offensive assault for most of the second period, the Crimson gave up its fourth goal on a two-on-one defensive blunder...
...Yeah, it's a jinx," Nielsen agreed...