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...good running mate for Gore would be Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, whose Congressional Medal of Honor and loss of a leg in Vietnam would preempt any perceptions of softness on national defense. His "down-home" Midwestern image will retain the Democrats' traditional strength in Minnesota and Michigan...
...crazy days to have a bike race," said John R. Moot a member of People for Riverbend Park. "Mothers' Day is the first real day the park is open. It seems wrong that Mr. Trump, no matter who he is, can preempt our use of the park...
...just another round of deplorable abuses. By combining unprecedented censorship with Gestapo-like mass arrests, the white regime has demonstrated its determination to deny reality--to isolate South African whites from the war raging around them and to hide that struggle from the world. But in the attempt to preempt what a government spokesman termed the "revolutionary onslaught" of resistance groups, the white regime is forcing the country down the path to precisely such a violent and catastrophic revolution...
Even ideology and issues cannot be explored thoroughly in California's "Bye-Bye Birdie" campaign, as the Chief Justice's opponents have dubbed it. The 30-second commercials and sloganeering so basic to contemporary political campaigning preempt informed discussion. The syllogism, "The Chief Justice has generally voted against executions. I, however, favor them. Therefore I wish to remove her from the Court," typifies what will run through the minds of many voters as they mark their ballots. This kind of cheap politicization of the Court is precisely what the Founding Fathers sought to avoid when they wrote life tenure...
...prestigious award for research that most students--or most people for that matter--would find incomprehensible makes Herschbach all the more an example to the University at large. The lesson is that Harvard's often overriding emphasis on research--exemplified in the way it makes tenure decisions--need not preempt top scholars from a commitment to teaching...