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...probablys and maybes, in all their dizzying permutations--from Jerusalem in 701 B.C. to China in 1946. What If? editor Robert Cowley, who also edits MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, says this exercise is no mere parlor game but makes history "come alive." Others might call it pointless, if mildly interesting. The bloody "factuals" of history are vivid enough without foraging into further imaginings...
...moment will be poignant, even as some may try to dismiss it as pointless. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who has led the three-year fight against McCain's bill, loves to say, "This issue has never defeated anyone in the American political process." Nor has it ever launched a presidential campaign. Back in January even McCain's top advisers hoped to persuade him that campaign-finance reform was a loser issue. They quietly commissioned a poll of G.O.P. voters in four key primary states to prove their point. But when the results came in, they showed...
...ever feel jealous, I ask, when another miner makes the big strike? "Ah, no, Bob, it'd be pointless. You'd spend your whole life being jealous. I feel glad, actually. It keeps you believing that it could happen to you tomorrow. And if you go for six months without a strike, you've got to believe that. Otherwise you'd go crazy...
...under the impression a century covered 100 years. Yet TIME seems to think the past 10 are the most important. I should have known the issue would be a silly, pointless exercise when a world-famous artist, Robert Rauschenberg, taped together some file photos and called it a cover! I hope he had the good grace to donate his fee to charity. CHARLES GLASBERG New York City...
...have a more nuanced position. But why risk revealing it when you can instead send a fuzzy message sufficient to keep voters confounded until the polls close? Actually, it's always tempting to fly below the radar, but this year the public is starved for candor, tired of the pointless manipulation former President Gerald Ford warned against two weeks ago: "Candidates without ideas hiring consultants without convictions to run campaigns without content...