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After a late night of wooing New Hampshire Republicans, Senator Richard Lugar is up early at the Manchester Holiday Inn for a sensible breakfast of All-Bran and whole-wheat toast. It is part of an unvarying routine that includes yogurt and two apples for lunch daily and meticulous markings on a chart tracking his morning run. Such a creature of habit is now doing the most insensible thing by jumping into the G.O.P. presidential primaries in a way the political oddsmakers see as quixotic: he is already vastly out-financed and out-organized. Until he decided to test...
...flaws in the proposal, children's advocates insist, are many and terrifying. By allocating money to the states in block grants, for instance, an unexpected economic downturn in one region could have catastrophic effects. "If the wheat crop is bad one year or Boeing lays off 5,000 people," says the Rev. Sam Muyskens, executive director of the Inter-Faith Ministries in Wichita, Kansas, "there will be more hungry children but no more money available to feed them." Muyskens' organization administered a recent survey that found that 1 in 22 children in Kansas should be classified as hungry. Republican lawmakers...
...practices which medieval priests would ask about in the confessional anticipate "9 1/2 Weeks." One suggested question in a handbook for priests reads, "Have you done what some women do? They take off their clothes and smear honey all over their naked bodies and then lay down...onto some wheat...then roll around a lot this way and that...and make bread from the flour and give it to their husbands...
...Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary's plan to fly to Beijing next week with a delegation of American businessmen who expect to sign deals worth as much as $8 billion. Another is the U.S.'s decision to go ahead with the sale of a million tons of wheat at subsidized prices...
...However, Wheat is also resigned to the fact that she is just a student living in one of Harvard's houses. "North House is only ours for three years. We [didn't] have a say in this decision...