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...again. God was smiling on us." If the smiles keep coming and if the Gore-Lieberman ticket wins, it will be interesting to see how the new Vice President deals with the problem of his own Inauguration, which is required by the 20th Amendment to the Constitution to occur on Jan. 20. Next year, as it happens, that date falls on a Saturday...
Previous failure does not predict a failed President. Previous success does not predict a successful President. That's part of the interest of a presidential election--the uncertainty about what transformations, good or bad, may occur in the winning candidate when he becomes President. Perhaps no transformation at all will come to pass. Chester A. Arthur will remain Chester A. Arthur, and there is nothing you can do about it. But beware. Lewinsky or no Lewinsky, the American presidency still inspires some reverence--an awe that may work in complex ways. Voters may put an apparent doofus in the White...
Instead, they voted to de-emphasize the role evolution would play. They were okay with the concept of microevolution, changes that occur within a gene pool of a species of plants or animals. That was left alone...
...first heart attack at age 37--and two more before his 48th birthday--Dick Cheney has been pretty lucky. When the first one hit in 1978, doctors were learning new ways to treat and prevent heart attacks, which occur when the flow of oxygen-rich blood is partially interrupted and some of the heart tissue dies. He had his second and third in 1984 and 1988, during a decade of extraordinary progress in the medical and surgical treatment of heart disease. By the time he underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in August 1988, the procedure had become almost routine...
Travis McCready, Harvard's director of community relations for Cambridge, said yesterday that a moratorium is unneeded because no development will occur in Riverside in the next 18 months anyway...