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...hearts set on a second Bush Administration, but a number of them are sporting "Reagan '96" signs in hope of a return to The White House by the former president. "We like George Bush, but Reagan did great things for this country," said John Hotaling, a sophomore at George Mason University in Virginia...
Between 1979 and 1981, a government task force called the Cultural Heritage Preservation Group met to draw up priority lists. The Library of Congress's "Top Treasures Inventory" includes a Gutenberg Bible, the Gettysburg Address and various papers of James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. For the National Archives, which is seven blocks from the White House, the single most precious item would be the Declaration of Independence, followed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Though the National / Archives building has a 55-ton steel-and-concrete vault on the premises, the scenario calls for the evacuation...
...goal in most cases is to increase strength without adding bulk. "We're trying to make runners and jumpers, not body builders," says Dave Ash, weight-training coach at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. One technique is to do many repetitions at low resistance, which takes longer to increase strength but vastly improves endurance. As part of her pre-Olympic regimen, Jamaican long jumper Diane Guthrie has been doing 250 leg curls every day wearing 10-lb. ankle weights. The 20-year-old Guthrie, who trained at George Mason, notes that when she slacked off onweight training, she hurt...
...second salary as a full-time schoolteacher. This, however, is a rare case of Perot deflating a tall story; more distressing than any of the disputes about individual incidents in his early career is his seeming ability to convince himself of the truth of whatever he wants to believe. Mason quotes EDS general counsel Richard Shlakman as saying, "A part of his genius is that he can be self-delusional when most of us are only hypocritical...
...Perot, vacationing in London, got news that Bradford National Corp., a New York-based firm, had wrested a Texas Medicaid contract away from EDS. Perot could not accept the idea that EDS had lost fairly. He flew back to convene an EDS meeting in Dallas, at which, says author Mason, "eavesdroppers outside the third-floor conference room heard him shouting, 'I want to find the son of a bitch who let this happen and get him out of the company!' " Though the principal question was whether EDS or Bradford had submitted the lower bid, Perot and his aides...