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...fair, Democratic interest groups like MoveOn.org have also put trashy ads on the air, but the idea that the President of the United States would put his name on such unrelenting sludge is unprecedented. The Bush-Cheney campaign and the Republican National Committee (R.N.C.) send forth a daily tide of tone-deaf, derisive and sarcastic e-mails, reminiscent of the graceless vitriol that issued from the desperate Al Gore campaign in 2000. The naming of John Edwards occasioned an immediate spew-he was called a "disingenuous, unaccomplished liberal." The President himself attacked Edwards within 24 hours, which is also unprecedented...
...year later, new cases had almost tripled, with most occurrences in Nigeria, after immunizations were curtailed due to rumors that the program was a Western plot to sterilize Muslim girls. By the end of 2003, another 447 children in Africa had been paralyzed, and health officials are worried the tide has turned against them. "This year is the real nail biter," says Dr. Bruce Aylward, coordinator of the WHO's polio-eradication program. "Under a thousand cases is an unnatural state for an epidemic disease. Either we force it down to zero, or it is going to blow...
...until the DNA study was released in Nature in 1998 that the tide began to turn among historians. Although the article was misleadingly titled--the headline read JEFFERSON FATHERED SLAVE'S LAST CHILD, when in fact the study concluded solely that a Jefferson male had fathered that child--it provided the missing link that many historians needed. And there was other evidence: records indicate that Jefferson was at Monticello at the time of the conception of all of Hemings' children; Israel Jefferson, another slave at Monticello, corroborated Madison Hemings' story that he was the son of Jefferson and Hemings...
...suggest that D-DAY turned the tide of World War II exaggerates the significance of the landing. A widely acknowledged turning point was the 1942-43 Battle of Stalingrad, which ended in a dramatic reversal for the German army. Unfortunately, the Soviet Union's critical contribution to Germany's defeat is often downplayed by the West. JURGEN SCHMIDHUBER Manno-Lugano, Switzerland
...over the next five minutes the tide shifted. The Crimson role players came in and filled roles perfectly. Junior guard David Giovacchini knocked down a jumper, while sophomore forward Luke McCrone and freshman guard Jim Goffredo each knocked down threes to keep Harvard within...