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...stars rewarded after each election. By 1988 they had won five out of the past six presidential races, and could plausibly claim an unstoppable historical tailwind. Then came '92. This helps to explain the almost hysterical hatred of Bill Clinton by many Republicans and conservatives: he didn't just snatch an election from them; he punctured their claim to history. When the Republicans gained control of Congress in 1994 for the first time in decades, the victory was that much sweeter for restoring--with a vengeance--their momentarily lost sense of historical inevitability...
Barring that, Harvard's strong overall record and high national ranking make an at-large bid likely. The Big Red, for its part, must win Saturday against Brown and November 9th at Yale, then hope for a Crimson loss or tie to snatch the title and the bid. Like Harvard, Cornell seems poised for an at-large bid should the League championship elude...
...what about the mimes? A trio of French clowns, Les Macloma, is tiresome in its first two appearances, beguiling in its third (a snatch of music played on two balloons and a one-string violin). But John Gilkey, Quidam's emcee, is a gawky delight, especially in a dance routine with a hat rack. Gilkey knows that the body is a deft comic instrument, even as the charming Chinese girls who do the "diabolos" routine (spinning a toy on a string while prancing nonstop in short skirts and Tin Woodman hats) know how to make this precision aerobic workout seem...
...closed-door meetings of the party. "We wish and expect him to move from where he is," says Holbrooke. The challenge is not only to get Karadzic out of Bosnia but to turn him over for trial at the Hague. The U.S. could use force to arrest or snatch him, but the European allies are not on board for that, and such an effort would probably spark retaliation and bloodshed. Renewed fighting is the last thing Bill Clinton wants in an election year, so Karadzic may not be going anywhere...
...which the government refuses to implement. Plenty of people seem to care about certain policies more than enough to complain about who is in office on the basis of those policies. But relatively few complainers move much toward becoming human replacements for the dollars which a new budget has snatched--or will snatch--away from public programs and support structures. In my view, there are two kinds of political disillusionment--disillusionment accompanied by helplessness, which I came to know all too well and disillusionment accompanied by corrective action, even if only on a small scale, which I am glad...