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...they hid with their two children, Jo's sister Karen Brocato and several neighbors in a couple of small bathrooms. For two hours Bruce, his foot braced on the sink, pressed his 200-lb. frame against the door to keep the hurricane from ripping it open. They heard glass shatter and stick in the walls. Water poured in around the medicine chest, and the tub rattled itself away from the wall. Roof tiles flew under the door. "I've never been so scared in my life," recalls Brocato. "I hope I die if I'm ever that afraid again...
Bush, a moderate on abortion before he embraced the Reagan philosophy 12 years ago, cannot switch back. Another reversal would shatter his support among right-wing voters crucial to his re-election. But he needs centrists like Carol Daniels, 56, a former schoolteacher from Captiva, Fla., who says she was "born a Republican and have been a Republican all my life." Daniels hates being a single-issue voter, but she hates Bush's abortion stand even more. "I'll not vote for him," she says firmly...
...candidate is anointed as front runner, he inevitably triggers enough intense scrutiny from the press, opponents and voters to slow down his surge, at least for a bit. The impeding effect is greatest on candidates about whom the public and press know little, since negative revelations can easily shatter their tenuous popularity. The latest example: Clinton, who was declared a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination before the New Hampshire primary but then was staggered by bombshells about his alleged extramarital affairs, draft status and experiment with marijuana...
Harvard's new president launched an ambitious University-wide planning process this year to decide the school's priorities in preparation for a fund drive that will shatter world records...
Yale, a team with absolutely nothing to lose, came in looking to shatter the Crimson's hopes. The scenario is a familiar one for Harvard having recently slipped by Ivy cellar-dwellers Columbia and Cornell...