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...Hillary Clinton has won New York, and we now have the saddest television image of the campaign to date. Rick Lazio, her opponent, taking his daughter with him into the ballot box - inside a Ford dealership. There's something so sad and small about the idea, about executing this grand, public, civic gesture in a private business, a car dealership, no less. Not to sound like Doris Kearns Goodwin here, but voting should take place in schools, in courthouses, settings that call to mind our common bond and the idea of aspiring to a better future. Places that call...
...equivalent of political spackle [CAMPAIGN 2000, Aug. 14]. George W. Bush chose someone to fill in the gaps in his intellect, while Al Gore selected someone to smooth over the holes in his party's morality. Unfortunately, the choices for President still remain equally poor. This is the saddest fact of all: in this country of 275 million-plus people, Bush and Gore are the two best men their respective parties can offer voters. Can that really be true? MICHAEL WAGMAN Hidden Hills, Calif...
...while my sore feet). Ask drill sergeants, and some blame gender-integrated training, others the "doggone Nintendo generation," others the end-of-camp customer-satisfaction-like surveys that actually ask departing trainees what they thought. (Somebody does read them, and the squeaky wheels are apparently getting the greasing.) The saddest part came at the end, when, after two months of taunting us with threats of expulsion for our weaknesses, the drill sergeants finally had to admit that hardly anybody was going to fail after...
...Your Life through the great man's canonization in the '60s and finally into the horrifying battle over his property and his person waged between Groucho's children and the confused old man's last inamorata, Erin Fleming (he was 80; she was roughly 30). Kanfer excels in these saddest decades not because he's engaged in the black art of what Joyce Carol Oates calls "pathography," but because this is the period he can document most intimately through interviews with surviving witnesses. Necessarily, earlier sections of the book are largely built upon the unreliable memoirs of the Marx brothers...
Patrick says many of his teen customers, because they're short on cash, won't pay for a gym membership "until they've saved up for a cycle [of steroids]. They don't see the point without them." The saddest customers, he says, are the little boys, 12 and 13, brought in by young fathers. "The dad will say, 'How do we put some weight on this kid?' with the boy just staring at the floor. Dad is going to turn him into Hulk Hogan, even if it's against his will...