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...Senate have not often been among them. His attempt to get the bill past a GOP filibuster in 1999 set off one of the nastiest Senate confrontations in recent memory, as members of his own party ganged up to smother his reform. So it was both a good omen and a bit of a surprise that last week, as McCain launched yet another attempt, the bouquet of flowers he received came not just from a Republican but from one sponsoring a rival bill that could kill McCain's. "It was a big day for John," says Nebraska's Chuck Hagel...
Despite this weird omen, Rahul and I were reasonably confident that Harvard could win that night. As it turned out, though, Harvard was the primary choking suspect of the evening...
Javanese rulers have long gazed upon an eruption of Mount Merapi as an omen of troubled times ahead. So when the central Java volcano began sputtering and oozing lava early last week, many Indonesians recognized a portent of ill tidings for President Abdurrahman Wahid, the nearly blind 60-year-old Muslim cleric who has fitfully governed the country for the past 15 months...
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...Omen An asteroid large enough to wipe out France came within 800,000 km of hitting Earth?and was spotted by astronomers only days before it hurtled past...