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...Bush's home state of Texas is now the nation's second-most populous, supplanting Democratic stronghold New York. Implications: If the election were held all over again - perish the thought - and Bush won exactly the same states, he would win the electoral college 278-260, rather than 271-267. And House Republicans would have a 16-seat majority instead of nine...
...dread what traveleth nigh: "Where there is no vision, the people perish...
...dispatch of U.S., French, British and Norwegian rescue equipment. Then on Wednesday, Putin ordered Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, the navy commander in chief, to accept help. The Russians promptly invited Norway and Britain to send equipment, but by then it was already a near certainty that any survivors would perish before the rescuers could reach the area. Indeed, shortly before the British team arrived on Saturday, the Northern Fleet commander said, "The critical line of survivability has been closed...
Last week, Life cereal began re-airing the original Mikey-Likes-It commercial, which ran from 1972 to 1984. It features a finicky four-year-old who, contrary to rumor, did not perish from mixing Pop Rocks and Coke but became an ad executive, proving that you can take the boy out of the ads, but he'll still make money there. Mikey should feel right at home. There are lots of other comeback kids...
...publish-or-perish world of academe, he is a bit of an iconoclast. Since being tenured at Harvard in 1959, Fleming has been less than prolific in his scholarship. And yet, he has remained in the classroom, teaching students nearly every year...