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...final presidential debate, a contest that ostensibly helps to decide public opinion about the candidates. On NBC, the Mariners battled from a game behind in the American League Championships to try to prevent the Yankees from reaching what would be the first Subway Series in 44 years. The prospect of seeing El Duque, David Justice, Vice Pesident Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush strut their stuff all in one evening--well, it was an evening of vegging on the futon that was not to be missed...
Alas, the Baldwin of Baldwins has since backtracked, apparently alarmed by the news that they speak French in France. But his despair over the prospect of a Republican president seems to be shared by many of my Harvard acquaintances, most of whom are prone to declare, with exaggerated horror, that if Bush wins in November I'm going to move to Canada...
Besides, there are plenty of reasons to like Dubya, even if you disagree with him on taxes, Social Security, Medicare, abortion and all the rest. For one thing, in a Bush Restoration, we would be spared the prospect of another Maya Angelou Inauguration poem (the worst of Clinton's decisions, bar none), not to mention the preening of Streisand, Bolton and company, and the tedium of listening to Joe Lieberman tell us, yet again, about how much he loves his grandmother, his mother, his wife, his father...
...relatively unimportant in a world context that is, for the moment, abruptly changed. Arafat has succeeded in discrediting the peace process itself, an act of wanton perversity. The Palestinians had within their grasp the best settlement they will ever get - almost all of the West Bank and Gaza, the prospect of a shared Jerusalem. But perhaps in the Palestinian subconscious there remains a sense of injured honor that judges it must win back by force of arms land lost by force of arms...
...know nothing about these things," she says, recalling the prospect of getting an abortion. The idea of surgery frightened her. "I was so scared. I was afraid of the risks." Her boyfriend had told her about mifepristone; she liked the sound of it. "Without surgery it would be less risky," she thought, "like having a period." But he had also offered to marry her, urged her to keep the baby. Her children said they would baby sit. She didn't think it would work. "I've already had my babies," she said...