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...this country? Election night gave us the most famous double-bungle in recent reporting history. As poor Dan Rather was forced to tell the world that Florida was miss-called in what head statisticians called a "beaut of a mistake," Rather could only grin sheepishly and attempt to shore up the remainder of the journalistic integrity and credibility left in his haggard body. As the hours wore him down, he eventually experienced what could only be described as a full-blown psychotic episode. Mounting pressure forced Dan into cryptic quasi-stream-of-consciousness spewings like "...we won't know until...
However, Harvard will have to shore up certain areas where it has demonstrated inconsistency before it can be considered a legitimate contender for the title...
Every summer while I was growing up, my parents took me to the Jersey shore, where I'd plug quarter after quarter into pinball machines. As a teenager attempting to evade Mom and Dad's sometimes overbearing attention, I'd bike to the local arcade and slam the same games. Even into my 30s, whenever I'd visit my folks, I'd drive to a nearby juke joint and shoot a few pins for old times' sake. But when I became an orphan this year at age 42, I also became an adult. I stopped playing pinball for good...
...even the boardwalk. A few days after the funeral, I drove out to the Jersey Shore to watch the sunrise. Walking on the familiar wooden slats, I passed the arcade that my parents took me to as a child. There were still a few pinball machines left amid the new video games. Somehow, I didn't have the urge to drop in a single coin. But I did imagine a time when I could take my own kids down to the beach and let them play to their hearts' content...
...change horses in midstream," Mario Cuomo tells us. But Clinton and Gore were not the horse that brought us across the stream--the American people made the great economic current that pushed Clinton and Gore safely to shore. And now the latter brag at how they used the spurs and whip...