Word: repeatability
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Well, the definition of enlightenment changes. Last week the California state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing weekly injections of a sex-drive-reducing hormone called Depo-Provera on all paroled, repeat child molesters. Judges could also order this so-called chemical castration for first-time offenders...
Agreed: those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. The real problem is that sometimes so are those who remember it. And there you have the predicament of recent Republican history. From the time in the 1970s when the right wing of the G.O.P. zapped the moderates once and for all--a pivotal moment in that struggle was the substitution of Bob Dole for Nelson Rockefeller as Gerald Ford's running mate--there has never been any doubt as to whether the G.O.P. would be a conservative body. The only real questions have been how conservative and whose...
...course, the true dynamics of the Kennedy marriage remain essentially unknowable. But encountering this mystery at the core of their projects slowed down Andersen and Klein not at all. Using dozens of interviews and piles of documents--with a fair amount of overlap--the authors seize the opportunity to repeat some familiar Kennedy dirt and dig up a few new tidbits of their own. What intimate psychological revelations there are rarely rise above this level: "What drew them together?" Andersen asks. A friend of Kennedy's answers, "They were two lonely people, and they instantly recognized that in each other...
...selecting a running mate, Perot understands that he cannot repeat his blunder of '92, when he chose the stouthearted but miscast Admiral James Stockdale. Perot would love to have a blue-chip candidate like David Boren, Warren Rudman or Sam Nunn, but so far none of them will give him a tumble. Perot, by most accounts, would be a most happy fella to have Lamm on the ticket, but Lamm has demurred, a stance that doesn't make sense if Lamm wants to build the party and become the heir apparent...
...tape together, with Devers winning by a literal nose. But minutes passed before the result was posted, and then silver medalist Ottey filed a protest that was denied an hour later. Devers, who thus becomes the first man or woman since Wyomia Tyus in '64 and '68 to repeat in the 100, was quick to bank her joy with concern for the loved ones of the people injured and killed in the blast at Olympic Park. "It's hard to enjoy this," said Devers, "knowing that someone is trying to destroy the Olympic spirit. But they won't be able...