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...Dole's path is a dangerous one. In his perfect legislative world, he could calibrate bills so cleverly, pack them so guilefully, that he would look good if Clinton signed and Clinton would look bad if he didn't. (Imagine Bill's Dilemma: Will it hurt me with my liberal base if I sign it? Will it poison me with Perot voters if I don't?) But Dole's world is changed now. He must reckon with a possibly uncooperative House, led by fractious freshmen who suspect Dole of selling out and last week pleaded with Dick Armey...
...deals on each of those issues, he wouldn't be saying that." But Dole is counting on the desire of moderate lawmakers to get something done in an election year, and the goodwill of voters who will see that Dole is trying to do just that. The path is tricky, but consider the alternative: campaigning. "We don't have any money," laments a Dole aide...
...shores of the strait are more closely synchronized. The immediate crisis will pass, and the two sides will not have irreparably antagonized each other. But how will they fare at resolving the next conflict when it comes along, as it surely will? Comprehensive engagement may still be the right path, but it would yield better results if both sides also engaged in more mutual comprehension...
After that, even Ray doesn't know what will happen. Perhaps the population will reach stasis and stagnate at the level of pond scum. Or perhaps Ray's digital beings will set off down the same sort of evolutionary path our species has traveled, only at electron speed. And if that happens, what then? We may find ourselves face to face with an artificial intelligence so thoroughly immersed in the silicon realm, so distant from our curious, carbon-based concerns, that we cannot even hope to converse with...
While some students took the supernatural path, other first-years tried to do what they could to circumvent the system...