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...resilience of the disgraced on the right is instructive. If Burton could be taken seriously after his watermelon episode, are we really sure the Democrats had no choice but to drop Bill Clinton like a political hotpotato rather than use him in the 2000 campaign? Now, Democrats shudder at the Kerry campaign because he’s Northeastern and liberal, as though embracing their base (never mind their fringes) were some kind of a political death sentence. On an individual level, this is the kind of insecurity that makes a popular southern Democratic Senator, afraid to lose a vote...
...whole experience was weird,” she says with a shudder. “Why wouldn’t they double check the person they were supposed to induct...
Some people are opting for a simpler approach. Babs McDonald, 49, and her husband Ken Cordell, 59, of Athens, Ga., have already bought plots in Ramsey Creek Preserve, a 33-acre South Carolina cemetery dedicated to environmentally friendly burials. They shudder at the thought of going the "conventional route"--being embalmed and then buried in a fancy casket. "Just dig a hole, put me in it, then cover me back up," says McDonald. Come that day, they plan to be buried dressed in jeans and T shirts and wrapped in cotton shrouds. Says Cordell, an environmental scientist: "I figure...
...Every evening, the Department of Health releases the numbers of new infections and fatalities. If the numbers are lower than yesterday, we cling to the hope the worst is over. If there are more new cases and deaths, we shudder. But then I find out one of the newly infected is a co-worker's father or a doctor who once treated my sick daughter, and the fear and worry are reduced again to the real story behind this outbreak: one man, in an intensive-care ward, hooked up to a respirator, gasping for breath, fighting for his life...
...Shadow have all said no. Even Mong Kok's celebrated prostitutes are losing customers. Hong Kong's new leisure activity? Breathlessly anticipating the Health Department's early-evening release of the number of new SARS cases that day. If the tally is more than yesterday's, we shudder. One fewer and we hope the worst is past...