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Voting in a presidential election can be like trying to predict the future. One must choose one of two candidates, in hopes that his decisions and policies over the next four years will be wise, or at least relatively sane. In order to assist your decision-making process, the following are two scenarios about what might happen under either a Gore, or a Bush, administration. The New York Times...
...While I value Deborah as an indispensable member of the Harvard Softball team, I am most thankful for the care and support that Deborah has given me the past four years," Godfree says. "I can always count on Deborah to listen, offer wise advice, and make me laugh...
Disney has been making what amounts to the same animated feature for more than 60 years. In this "classic," an innocent creature, often an orphan (1942's Bambi, 1999's Tarzan), is abandoned in the wilderness, adopted by a sympathetic guardian (sometimes of another species), and acquires a wise and funny sidekick who guides him through adolescent trials to heroic manhood. Typically, these conclude in combat with an older male representing traditional ways...
...humanity. Wait a minute. Did we just say humanity? This creature is, in fact, pea-brained and prehistoric. And though he ends up entwining his endless neck around the "caring" Neera's (Julianna Margulies), his endeavors are quite a stretch for anthropomorphism. You may buy into chipper crickets and wise-guy meerkats, but the dinosaurs' reputation precedes them down the millenniums. Putting it mildly, it is not a warmhearted...
...same time, it's worth recognizing that the efforts of the U.S. government and others to get people to live in multinational and multiethnic communities are more often than not exercises in futility. Instead, it is often wise to accommodate those pushing for ethnic separation, segregation and homogenization--even if that means partitioning entire nations to reduce violence...