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Davis—who just officially launched his re-election campaign last week—and the Democrats seem to have decided that the energy crisis might just knock state Republicans off of the endangered species list. In a long-term contract with power-producers, the state locked itself into stable—if not generous—electricity rates for the near future. After much wrangling, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission agreed to price caps on electricity in western states. But until recently, President Bush was pretty much ignoring the problem. It may have helped that many...
...Listening to the radio in the shower While we applaud your efficiency, we?d like you to remember one thing: The shower is not the place for dancing, mocking the President or cheering on your favorite team. Slippage danger aside, too much excitement means you may knock your radio into the water - and if the radio is plugged in, you?re going to be electrocuted. And that would put a damper on your summer, now wouldn...
...points, like the steady drummer he's been so far - to justify what he said. This way, economists and pundits and investors and investor-watchers are left confused and maybe a little hurt - not to mention in possession of the excuse many of them have been waiting for to knock Father Greenback off his Teflon pedestal...
...left-wing knock against "All in the Family," and more specifically against O'Connor's performance, was that people might enjoy it for the wrong reasons: bigots could use his most troglodytic insults, or sexists could call their wives "dingbats," and claim they were just quoting Archie. Worse, they argued, he made his working-class antihero empathetic and therefore, they argued, made his beliefs attractive. Wrong. Archie Bunker spoke to a whole country engaged in a second American civil war, fighting bitterly in their own living rooms with people they loved nonetheless. If he was too unreconstructed to admire...
...their minds." Martin, 28, who suffers from a rare circulatory disorder that may cost him his right leg, could have chipped a tooth on the compassion of some of his peers but instead took the long view. "An institution like the PGA tour," he said, "before they just automatically knock down someone's desire for accommodation, now they might have to think twice...