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...silently in my back row seat and observed my fellow students chuckling and cracking jokes, I thought to myself: don't be so smug. Remember, when it comes to an election, or for that matter to a social movement, economic theory will always lose to the gut reaction. William E. Pike...
...Knicks, even if they fall to the Bulls for the umpteenth year in a row, made it to the second round despite not having too much talent and injuries to key players like John Starks...
...William Sound of some 2,000 fishermen, artists and Eyak natives. "There may be a miniboom in Anchorage, but there is a major bust still going on in Cordova," says Torie Baker, a board member of the Cordova District Fishermen United. This year, for the second spring in a row, the town's 900 fishermen set out for herring and came / up empty; normally they would haul a catch worth somewhere around $10 million. Yes, a smattering of herring did manage to make it to the sound, up from their winter home in the Gulf of Alaska, but they were...
Something else was on Bush's mind as he sat last week in that front row of Presidents and their wives. In the hours of despair after Bush lost the election in 1992, one of the first letters he received was from Richard Nixon. Few could know so well those depths. "It was just a very sweet letter," remembered Bush. "Very sensitive -- very sensitive and very meaningful for me. And in his role as a former President, Nixon has been very good; never a conflict of interest...
...federal death penalty, put three-time violent felony or drug offenders behind bars for life, increase the number of police and prisons and boost funding for crime prevention and rehabilitation. In a surprise victory for liberals, the Congressional Black Caucus gained a provision that would allow death-row inmates to base challenges to their sentences on statistical evidence of racial bias. The House version must now be reconciled with a Senate bill...