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When the 2000 NCAA Tournament rolls around this fall, the favorite should naturally be No. 4 North Carolina. Although the Tar Heels lost its top spot in the rankings due to a 2-1 loss to ACC rival Clemson, North Carolina has still won 15 of 18 national titles...
...wasn't that long ago, 1997 to be exact, that Harvard itself was in the national quarterfinals, and standing in the way of the Tar Heel dynasty...
...about substance. I think the best substance turns out in the end to be the best politics--that's a view some see as quaint, but I think it's true." Here Gore is executing a version of the Dick Morris game plan, using issues to gild himself and tar his opponent--hence the Democrats' ads attacking Bush's health-care record in Texas for leaving too many poor children without coverage. "Gore's ads make Texas look like it's Belize or Bulgaria or someplace where kids live in huts with no roofs and everything's polluted," said...
Years ago the man who owned the farm before us stood in the middle of the road, we're told, and turned back the tar trucks - ordered them to go somewhere else...
...where my farm lies, the roads department is every bit as good as the British colonials'. It's a complex competition - the wild against the paved. The animals - coyotes, deer, foxes, beavers, fishers, bear, even a couple of mountain lions - are for the moment flourishing. But the tar trucks are prospering, too, fattening on real estate taxes, and they look as if they have their Darwinian agenda in order. I do not have any illusions about which species is going to win this...