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...Tuesday, I am going to take a midterm and then go vote in my first presidential election. The midterm is on the inequality of nation--why we are so rich and everyone else is so poor. My vote is also on the inequality of nations--why we are becoming so poor and dragging the rest of the world down with...
...only have one midterm, my super hasn't found the tape on my walls, and Dave Winfield is a hero. Perhaps, just perhaps, his triumph means that we'll see a kinder, gentler George in the spring. The starting pitcher for the Blue Jays in the final game, David Cone, is a prized free agent considering digging his cleats into the pitching mound in the Bronx. Maybe we'll sign him, and maybe a shamed Boss will treat him with the dignity he deserves. Hope springs eternal...
...Saddam has his uses for Bush. The U.S. President tried to drum up political support during the 1990 midterm elections by demonizing Saddam as "worse than Hitler," and has sought to take advantage of the latest confrontation. During the Agriculture Ministry dispute, the White House released photos of midnight strategy sessions held by the President and his advisers, thus reminding voters whose steady hand steers the ship of state...
...largest single contributor listing Harvard as an employer, handing out $3000 to presidential and congressional candidates. Tribe contributed $1000 to the primary campaign and $500 to the general election campaign of Sen. Harris L. Wofford (D-Penn.), who defeated former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh in a midterm election...
Congress is never too humbled by scandal to pass up a turf fight. This week its leaders plan to call for a vote on a constitutional amendment, proposed by James Madison in 1789, barring Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises. Now that 38 states have ratified the proposal, Congress wants credit too. Constitutional scholars say the vote is meaningless; the 27th Amendment will be official as soon as national archivist Don W. Wilson declares that the states' paperwork is in order...