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Most political pundits subscribe to the latter rationale. Their proverbial argument amounts to proclaiming that Dole's advanced age and inability to communicate account for Clinton's lead in election polls. The same U.S. News and World Report poll substantiates this analysis. Fifty-four percent of Americans would vote for a candidate with serious concerns about his character but with a similar political bent, while only 31 percent would vote for the individual whose character they respect but whose opinions they do not favor...
...capital punishment side derides the state for spending money to keep murderers alive, while the opposition fires back by insisting that it costs far more to execute a criminal than it does to maintain him in prison for life. Although nominally correct, there are several problems with this latter "card." First and obviously, the massive cost of carrying out a death sentence is incurred not through the actual procedure itself but, rather, through the endless appeals that each case involves...
...would be at the top. Power and influence generally go hand in hand. Anyone who has the clout to make decisions with the stroke of a pen has influence over the way we think and live. But some people, particularly Presidents, are more notable for the former than the latter. Clinton is powerful. He can propose how to parcel out the federal budget, stock the federal courts and decide which uncooperative trade partners get spanked. Influential is another matter. When he succeeds at governing, as he has (for now) with the budget, he's a man who doesn...
...latter part of the last century, the historian Henry Adams used to mortify himself for falling short of the power held by his forebears John and John Quincy Adams. But his meditations upon the destructive potential of modernity and the forces that shaped life in America--a place, he complained, where all become "servant[s] of the powerhouse"--became a 20th century guide for the perplexed. As for his contemporaries in the White House whose station he sometimes envied, such men as Rutherford B. Hayes and Grover Cleveland, most of them look now like the mediocrities Adams knew them...
...Women who undergo surgery for BREAST CANCER during the latter phase of the menstrual cycle--days 14 to 30--rather than during the first part of the cycle appear twice as likely to suffer a recurrence of the cancer, researchers have discovered...