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...each time I revisit her poems, her words, they climb up on my knees and sit in tight contentment. They speak to me of form and color, patterns and dawns. They talk of myths; they tell me where the flesh lives; where a troop of young heroes and sheroes lean back in chairs, "beautiful. Impudent. Ready for life." Where the young "live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along." I never have to ask where are the flowers? Sun? Where are the mothers? Fathers? Where are the old marrieds? Where...
STRONG HUSBANDS A study of senior citizens presented at the Gerontological Society of America has a rather retro conclusion: husbands and wives live longer when the wife has a strong man to lean on emotionally and he is not as dependent on her. Among couples who leaned equally, wives had nine times the death rate and husbands four times the death rate of more traditional couples. As gender roles change, though, the findings may not hold true for aging baby boomers and Gen-Xers...
...failure and the legislature cannot get involved. So when would the recount have to be completed in order to avoid charges of failure? The Gore teams hope to have everything wrapped up by December 12, in time for the official naming of electors, but Professor Bennett warns not to lean too heavily on that date. "Nothing is set in stone," he says. "These are, as we all know by now, uncharted legal waters...
...claims of recount fraud in the disputed counties and hard questions about 1,000 overseas ballots, most of them from members of the armed forces, that were rejected mainly because they had not been postmarked. Democrats had mounted a coordinated challenge against the military ballots because they would probably lean toward Bush. And over that point, the trench war threatened to escalate into a full-scale culture war. The Bush team charged that Gore was disenfranchising the fighting men and women he wants to command as President. General Norman Schwarzkopf called it "a very sad day for our country." With...
...Bush team was coasting. Bush surrogate-in-chief James Baker, needing no more words than Gore would later, got to lean on the arm of Judge Terry Lewis and declare that "the rule of law has prevailed." Karen Hughes emerged later to discuss Thanksgiving plans and demur to expectant reporters that any plans for a Bush celebration this weekend were "premature" - but only because Harris hadn't called...