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While this may be a soothing convenience for frazzled Main Street and mall shoppers, sick of crowds and long check-out lines, it is a loser for state and local tax coffers. Governors addressed this issue--shopping and taxes--in this now waning 105th Congress and so did an Institute of Politics study group on federal and state power struggles this fall. They are issues that aren't likely to go away...
CONCESSION STAND It's hard to be a good loser. It's much more dignified to blame voter fraud. Dennis Vacco waited until last week, then his lawyer conceded defeat for him in the New York Attorney General's race. Notable holdouts on the give-it-up front...
...nomination in 1992 and as an idea factory for such once un-Democratic proposals as reforming welfare and balancing the federal budget. Back then, the DLC was the home of malcontents frustrated by the party establishment's leftist orthodoxy -- and by its tendency to put forward sure-loser candidates like Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. Now, thanks to Clinton's success as an Oval Office two-termer, DLC thinking has become the party's de facto theology, and its annual conference has developed into a station of the Democratic cross -- the place where, two years out from election...
...realizes that money can't buy you love, no matter how much you hoard. Good. Go spend it on something worthwhile. Bill Gates Gives $100 million for child immunizations in developing countries. Nice try, but you're still the world's richest dork. Dan Duquette Red Sox GM a loser in the free agent bidding war. Looks like the Sox won't be contenders again 'till the next millenium. Method Man Wu-Tang Clan disciple leaves the Shaolin ghetto for ritzy Cambridge. Future Class Day speaker...
...requires going somewhere and I just never went. I'm shirking my obligation," Brauwerman said. "I hope I'm not the only one who didn't vote or I'd be a loser...