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Oh, let's just admit it: John McCain is a long shot. He's got a heroic personal story, and being white has never hurt a presidential candidate, but on paper 2008 just doesn't look like his year. And considering what's happening off paper, it might be time...
The language was dry, understated, yet painfully clear. What caused the space shuttle Challenger to explode last Jan. 28, killing its seven passengers? ''Failure of the pressure seal in the aft-field joint of the right solid-rocket motor.'' Why was the shuttle allowed to fly if unsafe? ''Neither Thiokol...
Perhaps the most frequently quoted remark about dance in recent years is George Balanchine's maxim, ''Ballet is woman.'' People respond to it heartily: for once, someone on the inside had the guts to state the obvious. Though some of the greatest stars, from Nijinsky to Baryshnikov, have been men...
''A day that will live in infamy,'' declared TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, referring to the Supreme Court's reaffirmation last week of Roe vs. Wade. Citing Thomas Jefferson, the Republican presidential aspirant called the high court an ''unelected oligarchy'' and assailed the Justices as ''despots.'' Some 1,200 delegates to...
Few issues have divided the nation as sharply in the past 13 years as Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision affirming women's constitutional right to abortion. Last week it became apparent that states' efforts to regulate abortion are having an equally divisive effect on the high court...