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MINNESOTA Once a proudly liberal state, this is Jesse Ventura country now. Locked in a dead heat, both campaigns will target the young Twin City suburbanites who elected "the Body...
...From there, the water is likely to have cascaded through passageways and doors into the "sail," the conning tower above the control room, and into communications spaces and living quarters just aft of the sail. At that point, the floodwaters were probably thwarted by thick, watertight bulkheads guarding the twin VM-5 pressurized water reactors powering the submarine...
Barbara will make sure to help out with the twin daughters, Barbara at Yale and Jenna at the University of Texas. Her duties include carrying tissues. When the girls teared up at the convention, they were inexperienced and empty-handed. She dispensed the Kleenex. And now and then she will fire off an e-mail to W. "Always positive, always hopeful," she says. A while back she thought he looked nervous on the screen, and not wishing to make a direct suggestion to relax, she whispered it to one of his aides. Within a few hours the phone rang...
...calming down, of course, had really begun when he married Laura, "the best thing he's ever done," says his cousin Elsie Walker. It was Laura who had issued W. the ultimatum about booze. "It's me or the bottle," she reportedly told her husband. The birth of his twin daughters also did a lot to steady him. The collapse of oil prices and the sobering effect of a near death experience in business did too. But all the stories of personal growth still don't explain how he managed to change his whole attitude about his father, his legacy...
...then came the true genius note. George and wife Laura are talking about the birth of their twin daughters - we've just seen George in his shaggy '80s hairdo holding them - and he starts reminiscing. "It seems like just yesterday we were at the hospital," and he gets lost in the phrasing, "uh, uh... havin' birth..." And he and Laura crack up. This is a blooper. Al Gore, you think, would have cut and rolled take two. But what does Dubya care? He and Laura laugh each other goofy. I couldn't even think of the words for havin...