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...seems that both victory and defeat have a way of changing people, rewiring the circuits and rewriting the scripts. The theme of brotherly love disappeared when Bush had the wits scared out of him in New Hampshire and discovered he would have to give up his pound of flesh to the right wing after all; when Bush allies passed out leaflets about Cindy McCain's past addiction to painkillers; when McCain slashed back by suggesting that Bush was intolerant in reaching out to the Fundamentalists at Bob Jones University. Even before last week, the race that was supposed...
...wipe out federal nursing-home standards), Gandhi got rocked. He lost control of the campaign and never recovered. In conference calls with the candidate, Bradley supporters like Congressmen Jim McDermott of Washington, George Miller of California and Jerrold Nadler of New York would scream at him--"Quit letting him pound you!"--and he would reply, "Well, we're starting to take him on some." But the Congressmen didn't see it. "When I signed on," says one, "I thought, 'He's a basketball player. There's got to be a competitor in there.' But he didn't want...
Marbury Madison--the ears-akimbo German shepherd-Rhodesian Ridgeback mix who came from the pound--looks, frankly, like a neurotic mess. He glances cringingly at a stranger and slinks away behind the 26-month-old twins. By contrast, the twins, Christopher and Siena, toddle toward a downstairs playroom with the focused, menacing energy of a tornado aimed at an Alabama trailer camp. It is left to the lovely Alice, a tortoiseshell cat, to perform ceremonies of greeting and accept a scratch behind the ears...
...seven or seven and a half dollars for a 50 pound bag, which is very reasonable," he said...
Freshman Patrick O'Donnell (184 pounds) just missed missing a NCAA berth with a close loss in the semis. Wrestling up from his normal 174-pound weight class, O'Donnell set the tone of the tournament with a commanding 17-3 win over Scott Zimmerman of Franklin and Marshall...