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...specter is haunting China -- the specter of capitalism. But the octogenarian leaders in Beijing don't come right out and say that. They call their bugaboo "peaceful evolution," an innocuous-sounding code phrase for what they think is an onslaught led by the U.S. to overturn their socialist system...
...Those like Senator [Arlen] Specter (R-Penn.), who saw their role as defender of Clarence Thomas, had no fear of embarrassing themselves," he said...
Pennsylvania hasn't had a Democratic senator in 26 years. Arlen Specter, who holds the other Pennsylvania Senate seat, made headlines recently sitting on the confirmation committee at the Clarence Thomas hearings. He's the one who asked Anita Hill the brilliant questions about a hypothetical situation, and then asked Hill if she would have remembered a situation like that had it actually happened. He is also the senator who chided Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) about Chappaquiddick during the final floor speeches of the confirmation debate...
...Barthelemy. "The police no longer have time to handle the minor calls. They're out on major crimes. To say the economy has had a devastating effect on the city is to put it mildly." Tourism and the promise of revenues from riverboat gambling offer some hope. But the specter of a Duke governorship chills many business leaders, who think tourists will stop coming and companies will leave the state if he is elected...
...Students] really have to think twice about with whom to start a sexual relationship," she said. "The specter of AIDS is terrible for young people...