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None of this is lost on Kennebunkport's 4,500 natives. Many ponder their future at Alisson's Restaurant, where fresh rumors mingle daily with the clam chowder. Someone murmurs that the Secret Service will close Ocean Avenue, the road that runs past the Bush compound on Walker's Point, for security reasons. "If they do that, the cars will back up all the way to Wells," moans Rick Griffin, owner of the Kennebunkport Inn, envisioning a traffic jam stretching to a town seven miles away...
...This year the earth spoke, like God warning Noah of the deluge. Its message was loud and clear, and suddenly people began to listen, to ponder what portents the message held. In the U.S., a three-month drought baked the soil from California to Georgia, reducing the country's grain harvest by 31% and killing thousands of head of livestock. A stubborn seven-week heat wave drove temperatures above 100 degrees F across much of the country, raising fears that the dreaded "greenhouse effect" -- global warming as a result of the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases...
...senior adviser to the President and must at least ponder a decision to go nuclear. Could you push the button...
...election enters its final weeks these quarrels become less important and the big riddle campaign watchers now ponder is which ivory-tower advisers will become Washington-bound paper pushers and which will continue to publish papers...
...remembrance: Alexander Haig, Pat Robertson, Pete du Pont, Joseph Biden, Bruce Babbitt, Paul Simon. Has it really been just four months since Iowa anointed Richard Gephardt and Bob Dole as the favorites? Before Primary Season 1988 is carted off to the Smithsonian, it seems fitting to step back and ponder some lessons of the campaign that was. After all, as the Duchess instructed Alice in Wonderland, "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find...