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...grounded in the grass roots, many recent propositions have originated - or gained unstoppable momentum - from the rich and powerful. In California, for example, it takes at least $1 million to secure an initiative's spot on a ballot, which means special-interest groups like the teachers' unions (which fight tooth and nail to defeat voucher initiatives), as well as wealthy individuals like Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen (who spent $8 million to garner support for public funding of a new Seattle football stadium), have become a significant force behind the seemingly endless array of propositions littering state ballots nationwide...
...This campaign is about the geriatric package (Medicare, Social Security, prescription drugs), about the role of government (bigger? smaller?), about abortion (the anxiety about the woman's right to terminate early life coming to focus in geriatric calculations - several of those Supreme Court Justices are getting long in the tooth). Above all, it is about the imperfections of the candidates' personalities...
...minute mark, Cheney finally bared a tooth or two, icily drum-beating "eight years of talk and no action," and Lieberman actually started to get miffed. But the brief flare-up immediately preceded the evening's pinch of genuinely funny salt. Grabbing hold of Reagan, Lieberman declared Americans better off than they were pre-Clinton and tapped Cheney's oilman stint. "I know, Dick, that you're better off than you were 8 years ago too." Replied Cheney, "And I can tell you, Joe, that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it." Lieberman: "I can tell my wife...
...destination was a tiny area in the midst of the Amazon basin, a few hectares of land in the middle of a preserve called the Tapaj?s National Forest, 67 km south of Santar?m in the Brazilian state of Par?. After a tooth-loosening ride along a cratered, flooded jungle road and a short but slippery hike into the 25-year-old preserve, I finally got to my goal?a surreal scene in the heart of the rain forest. As far as the eye could see, transparent plastic tents covered the forest floor, which was crisscrossed by a complicated network...
Rocker was vilified for his comments in the national press, but it was his unrepentant behavior afterward that made him a singularly reviled figure in sports. After an apology that came from his mouth with all the willingness of a healthy tooth, Rocker continued to make inflammatory statements and topped it all off by even threatening the SI reporter who wrote the profile...