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...owes his survival, in a state with 5 Democrats for every 3 Republicans, to moving so far to the center that the center itself has moved. He gave the teachers a raise; he subsidized prescription drugs for seniors; he boosted state spending 63%. Add to that the warm luster that still clings tohim for his steady presence at Rudy Giuliani's side throughout last year's terror trauma, and he can even claim unusually strong support in New York City, which is 84% Democratic...
...owes his survival, in a state with 5 Democrats for every 3 Republicans, to moving so far to the center that the center itself has moved. He gave the teachers a raise; he subsidized prescription drugs for seniors; he boosted state spending 63%. Add to that the warm luster that still clings to him for his steady presence at Rudy Giuliani's side throughout last year's terror trauma, and he can even claim unusually strong support in New York City, which is 84% Democratic...
...your days seem to be missing some of their luster now that ROSIE O'DONNELL has left the airwaves, brace yourself: soon she will also be leaving the newsstand. And if the publisher of her self-titled magazine is to be believed, she has already taken leave of her senses. After months of public feuding with Gruner & Jahr, the company that publishes Rosie, O'Donnell quit the enterprise, saying she had been deprived of the editorial control promised her when the magazine was launched in April 2001. "I cannot have my name on a magazine if I cannot be assured...
...course, “democracy” did lose something that day—the luster of this ideal was somehow dulled, and Americans were incensed. Our government has responded in its own institutional way, stripping intelligence of its Cold War accoutrements, demanding redress between the riven CIA and FBI, and creating a new Department of Homeland Security...
...created new opportunities far greater than the jobs it destroys. Says Kurzweil: "Jobs are going to be more fulfilling, because in order to contribute meaningfully, we will have to operate at a really human level, which still today most human jobs do not require." That could bring a new luster to the teaching and nursing professions...