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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...
...past few days, both candidates have traveled frenetically to and from the swing states--Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Maine, Missouri, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota and New Mexico--in a last-minute effort to shore up traditional constituencies and appeal to undecided voters...
...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...
...have, ironically, created some political cover for Arafat, too. The Palestinian leader was always going to struggle to keep talking to an Israeli government whose security forces have killed an average of almost five Palestinians a day for the past 26 days. Now Arafat, too, has an opportunity to shore up his credentials on the seething Palestinian streets, which had grown openly hostile to his peacemaking efforts in recent weeks. That's a game the Arab League states are playing, too, using their weekend summit to appease their enraged citizenry with ritual denunciations of Israel and promises of $1 billion...