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...flight attendant announced, "I want to welcome you aboard the final flight of the day aboard Air Elvis." Begala exuded confidence that even if Clinton were to lose all six toss-up states, he would still prevail in the Electoral College. Then Begala mentioned Return to Earth, the autobiography in which astronaut Buzz Aldrin discussed his emotional problems after he left NASA. Referring to Aldrin, Begala said, "What do you do when you achieve your life's ambition at age 35?" Begala, 31, had just helped elect the President...
This precedent may seem like a toss-up, but two key facts have been ignored. The first is that Clinton, like Truman, has only one daughter, while Bush, like Martin van Buren, has four sons (and a daughter as well). That gives Clinton an edge on the Truman claim and makes Bush more like van Buren--who, by the way, lost his bid for a second term...
...remains ahead in many states -- such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Missouri -- that Democrats have failed to carry since 1976. TIME's analysis of the electoral-vote map shows Clinton just 4 short of the 270 needed to win, meaning that a victory in almost any one of the toss-up states would put him over...
...reputation as an aging Lothario. (On one taxpayer-supported foray to Pakistan, he took along a voluptuous former beauty queen.) This year hot checks have been his weak point. Peterson calls Congress a "check-bouncing, debt-ridden retirement village." Though polls show the race as a toss-up, Peterson is confident of victory. As she told Texas Republicans this summer: "Hang on, Mr. President, and hang on, America. Help...
...latest sounds and steps, but learning attitude is a little trickier. Keichiro Suzuki is already a master. Says the truck driver, 20, who sports a snowy pair of Air Jordans: "I like black people and their music because they're cool." When Suzuki dances, he can also toss his dreadlocks, a style in which rap-blitzed kids can invest seven hours and from $324 to $1,215 at a hair salon. So kakko-ii, or cool, is it to be black that a lively business is booming in tanning salons with names like "Neo-Blackers" and mail-order skin-darkeners...