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...this material from a new biography, "An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland," by H. Paul Jeffers, and from Paul F. Boller, Jr.'s "Presidential Campaigns"). Cleveland was accused of draft-dodging during the Civil War. Blaine got identified with the line about "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion," which backfired and hurt him badly among the urban Catholics he needed in the close race. As historian Horace Samuel Merrill wrote: "The depiction of Blaine as an unrestrained public plunderer and Cleveland as town drunk and debaucher was just a part of the material used to fill the vacuum...
...easy re-election for Gore-Kerry this November, propelled in large part by the support of the influential Buddhist community, which rose to political prominence after Gore's election in 2000. As well, Gore's approval ratings remain high after his high-profile role in putting down a possible rebellion in the state of Texas, led by its rogue governor, defeated 2000 Presidential candidate George W. Bush. Gore's use of the newly-created National Park Service "Controlled Burn" Strike Force was lauded by military analysts and the public as a unique solution to an intractable problem...
...been bound for the firing squad a few short months earlier: Clinton and Jackson were urging a war criminal to agree to order his men to lay down their arms, in exchange for his country's vice presidency and ministerial control over the diamond fields that had financed his rebellion. And in a failed and lawless state such as Sierra Leone, ministerial control meant a lot more than majority shareholding...
...math educators. Several reform curricula do not provide textbooks in the usual sense, and this deprives parents of one important source of information. Yet, also among parents, attitudes may be changing. A recent front-page headline in the New York Times declares that "The New, Flexible Math Meets Parental Rebellion...
...that his sister felt “implicit pressure” from the three family members; she was recently admitted to the Class of 2004. Carmichael’s parents were probably frustrated, he explains, that his sister might apply to a different college solely for the sake of rebellion. “I believe it got a little tight a couple of times,” he admits. Pat McKenna ’01 observed similar tension in his younger brother: “Of course he felt pressure, but not from me. Most of the pressure was self...