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...cede Gore the moral high ground, the candidate called them from California with more sobering news. Bradley had to cut short a campaign swing and check into a hospital for treatment of atrial fibrillation (see box). His irregular heartbeat corrected itself at the hospital, sparing him the mild electric shock called cardioversion that would have been used to return it to normal. And so the candidate held a Saturday press conference in an attempt to put questions to rest. "This is just a nuisance, quite frankly," he said. "My energy level is more than adequate. The schedule...
...takes the camera from Harris, who begins his quick goodbye. "I know my mom and dad will be in shock and disbelief," he says. "I can't help...
...among Harvard health care officials and staff at Harvard-affiliated hospitals, this news was hardly a shock...
...significant amount of time dreading my impending "adulthood," which entails getting a steady job and buying life insurance and wallpaper. As a sophomore I'm already contemplating which fellowships I could get so as to stave off being a grown up for a few more years. Therefore imagine my shock when the participants at this year's annual Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN) conference, only a few years younger than myself, readily treated me like a grown up. I tried to inform them of their gross mistake. I purposefully dressed more casually. I sat on the floor Indian-style...
...framed programs from the 1992 christening of the U.S.S. John S. McCain, a guided-missile destroyer named after both his father and grandfather; a model train designed after the full-size one McCain used to win his first Senate victory, complete with a tiny version of him with a shock of white hair at the back of the caboose. And there are three bricks from the Hanoi Hilton, the prison where McCain spent a part of his POW years...