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...attempts to dismiss Obama remind me of the Carter-Reagan matchup of 1980, another supposed referendum election. Ronald Reagan was ... a celebrity, a movie star, a right-wing lightweight. It seemed impossible--to most Democrats, at least--that he could win, although he did hold a slight lead going into the conventions. The fall campaign was very close--until, finally, the two candidates debated a week before the election, and the celebrity cleaned the President's clock. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Reagan asked in his closing statement. He seemed every bit as substantial...
...McCain, once reluctant to advertise his sterling Vietnam-era war record, will vigorously remind voters of his heroic sacrifices...
...There were tentative signs of peace in the city, and Purvis found himself covering an elusive political story, remembering that the streets could turn deadly in a flash, as they had when four foreign journalists were killed last July. Bullet holes in the stucco wall behind his work desk remind Andrew that two weeks ago an American rescue team attempting to save trapped Rangers blasted rocket-fired grenades into the third floor, destroying two bathrooms and obliging the owner to make some major repairs before the room was habitable. But once he is on the streets...
...sailboat had snagged an underwater power line. While divers spent two hours cutting the boat free, Smith and Malone had little choice but to continue trying to unsnarl the deal. ''We were lucky we weren't electrocuted,'' says Smith, who carries a blue poker chip in his pocket to remind him to pay attention to blue-chip opportunities. ''But it gave us a chance to keep negotiating and to come up with some good ideas.'' Those notions led to a breathtaking combination that calls for Philadelphia- based Bell Atlantic to acquire Englewood, Colorado-based TCI, the world's largest operator...
...works. When Trevor spits water into the sink, you're the sink. The movie falls short only of theme-park 3D attractions, like Walt Disney World's "Honey, I Blew Up the Kids," where you get spritzed at the end. Journey also has a runaway-tram ride that will remind you of the one in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but which I'd like to think is a tribute to the roller-coaster ride in the 1953 movie This Is Cinerama (another gimmick process that premiered in the middle of the original, short-lived 3D craze...