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...busy to appear at SAG strike events last year (birthday parties, dying dog, nanny quitting, husband Bruce Boxleitner's knee surgery). Victorious Actors Moving Forward treasurer candidate Kent McCord, of Adam-12, said, "I have never seen an attempt to obliterate the truth in the manner the Melissa Gilbert campaign has." The election was seen by many as a referendum on Harper-supporting outgoing president William Daniels, the voice of Knight Rider's K.I.T.T., who was faulted for his handling of the commercial strike this year. Others chose to see this election as a really funny mudslinging feud between...
...rate central character, whose style and substance foreshadowed the presidencies that would follow. His athletic vigor prefigured John F. Kennedy's. If anything, Roosevelt's White House jujitsu lessons make J.F.K.'s touch football look borderline effete. ("Muscular Christianity without the Christianity" is how somebody once described Teddy's manner.) His use of federal power against the massive industrial monopolies of his day opened the way to the decisive expansion of Washington under his younger relative, F.D.R. Though he came from old money, his inexhaustible democratic appetites--for books, people, food--to say nothing of his gift for moist-eyed...
...matter what shortcomings gas bombing has, it does have a few unintended benefits. Toxic as chlorine dioxide is to anthrax, it's also murder on mice, roaches and all manner of other vermin that may elude conventional extermination. But as the gas dissipates, it leaves behind a fine, white powder that looks rather like the contents of the original letter sent to Daschle--the last thing skittish Senate staff members and postal employees want to find on their desks and machinery when they return to work...
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...investigative activity...outside of Oregon," even medical groups historically opposed to euthanasia are denouncing the potential intrusion. Dr. Warren Jones, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, called the move a "major travesty" that will encourage physicians to curb the use of pain medications lest their bedside manner be misinterpreted...