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Getting there requires the skills of a subterranean mountain climber, which is why Lake of the Clouds is off limits to the public. The underground trek involves scrambling through narrow passages, navigating around steep crevasses and using ropes to descend two drop-offs -- the second of which encompasses a 60-m (200 ft.) cliff. Turn off the miner's light on your helmet, and you cannot see your hand in front of your face...
...nearing the sixth month of their search for a new president, Yale University officials say they are just starting to narrow their list of candidates, even though at least one source said the announcement would likely come sooner than expected...
Rocking the boat would remind us we don't yet swim well. Thus our rhetoric keeps us on our narrow paths, keeps us in the inner ring--as C.S. Lewis called it. Even when we leave a conversation, we justify ourselves away. "Well, I really have to go now, I have so much work to do." Why not, "it was good talking, bye"? Where did delight...
...Bush. More striking still, Clinton rolled up pluralities or majorities in most major demographic groups: men and women; blacks and Hispanics; every age group, from 18 to 29 to over 60; and every income class below $50,000 a year. Bush won the votes of whites, but by a narrow margin, and only because of the male vote; Clinton tied him among white women. The President also won Protestants and Asians but few other groups...
Presidential candidates had pushed themselves to the brink before, but almost always in quest of a narrow victory or fleeing from the ghosts of humiliation. Clinton was different; he did it, regardless of the buoyant polls, largely because he wanted to. Few political odysseys could rival Clinton's 48-hour, sleep-defying, time zone-girdling, voice-croaking campaign climax. From Cincinnati last Sunday morning to Little Rock at 10:30 a.m. on Election Day, the Clinton Exhaustion Tour covered 5,000 miles and 14 cities. An hour-by-hour chronicle...