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...country's most important voting blocs. Millions of white evangelicals returned to their roots to elect Carter 16 years ago. They changed allegiance again in 1980, helping to give Ronald Reagan and Bush large majorities. This year there is some wavering among the faithful. One reason is mild disappointment with Bush. Another is Bill Clinton's and Al Gore's status as churchgoing Southern Baptists. If Clinton and Gore convert their religious ties into enough votes, the Democrats can be politically born again in the South and a few pivotal states elsewhere...
...Volcano Lover, her fifth work of fiction, is a mild cerebral aphrodisiac. It is the sort of book that Sontag would probably call determinedly middlebrow. Her publisher, eager to start a buzz, compares it to "the postmodern potboilers of Umberto Eco and A.S. Byatt...
...take on any serving of five-alarm chili, no problem, Jalapeno peppers do not faze me. I will always go for the "Hot" salsa; "Mild" is for the timid-of-tastebud...
...into people for decades, though never successfully. What may make the difference this time is an experimental antirejection drug known as FK-506; doctors hope it will keep the recipient's immune system from attacking the new liver as a foreign object. Though the patient had symptoms of a mild rejection reaction by week's end, it wasn't considered serious. Otherwise, said a hospital spokeswoman, "he's doing really well. It's almost scary...
...When mild mannered classical archaeology concentrator David Rogers '92 left Harvard, and took his high-caliber comic strip "Dim Wits" along with him, The crimson had to fill the void with several syndicated strips. Although it was high praise for Rogers that his strip could only be replaced with several professional ones, many readers were confronted with a serious question. "What the heck is this Dilbert...