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This year all four networks called the Clinton victory at 10:48 p.m. Eastern time -- 7:48 p.m. in the West where polls closed at 8 p.m. -- thereby denying Westerners 12 precious minutes during which to vote in ignorance. Meanwhile, newspapers -- including the New York Times -- had hit the streets as early as 10:30 p.m. with CLINTON VICTORY headlines...
...have not been altered by the end of the cold war. You could say they've been exacerbated, because power, like nature, abhors a vacuum." Bush celebrated the death of communism by proclaiming a new world order. He was right about the new world, but so far there is precious little order...
Sinking lower and lower, the matchsticks were out to keep the eyes propped open. The inexhaustible treasure of the analysts' mind revealed itself in more precious sentences. It's a surge, a landslide, a mandate, a vote for change, an electoral surge, a rebuke, an end to history as we know it. Stars and Stripes in abundance were unfurled, and the great dreams and myths for a new age--the fuel of this society--were dramatized to the nation...
...richer -- or much poorer -- money would not be a problem. Some view a private- college education as an entitlement, much like unlimited high-tech health care. Such attitudes harden during difficult economic times and a tight job market, when a degree from a top school becomes all the more precious just when it is hardest to afford...
...upon the benefits that attend citizens from cradle to grave as inalienable rights. Why has France -- and many other West European countries -- long since reached a consensus about government's obligation to family while Americans continue to argue across party lines? While both cultures regard the family as a precious and fragile unit that requires governmental attention and care, historical and ideological factors make the terms of that obligation very different. French workers pay 44% of each paycheck to their government to ensure the wide range of family-related services that touch all generations. The relative homogeneity of society...