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Early on, it looked like Choo would wrap up the title easily. He took the first set, 6-1, and it looked like nothing could slow him down...
...teachers who exemplify the fighter-pilot mentality of success in the face of mortal danger, the idealism and even the humanity become imperiled. Too often, they are leached out in the long indoctrination. The best become like their teachers: they worship at the shrine of scientific objectivity, and they wrap themselves in a mantle of depersonalization that allows them to carry on despite the carnage around them--all in the name of victory over death...
...latest craze? Think safety: Due to their small size and insubstantial weight, the scooters are hard to handle. Bumps or rocks on the pavement can cause small fry to lose their balance and fall, which means anything from scraped knees to fractured skulls. Tuesday's report advises parents to wrap protective gear around their kids' limbs and to insist on helmets. Of course, the extra padding may not add to the all-important "cool" factor, but it could be the difference between a fall and a fatality...
...issues actually matter, Gore gets to fight on the ground where he is strongest, win back the Democrats who have wandered off, maybe even warrant a second look from the fickle soccer moms. If he's artful, he can do it without sounding too much like Huey Long--just wrap the New Democratic message in an old Democratic tarp. At least that's the strategy. Centrist Democrats who are desperately rooting for Gore are watching this with their heart in their throat. Nearly everything about the Gore tack--indeed, much of last week's party convention in Los Angeles--left...
...down nostalgia lane. It means you get to wheel out the Kennedys: two of 'em, namely Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and the batting-stuffed husk of Uncle Teddy. That means a predictable fit of Kennedymania among the press, high- and middlebrow alike, and with it, the hope that tomorrow's wrap-ups will focus on what a survivor Caroline is rather than, say, Jackson's whipping the crowd into a frenzy by decrying the death penalty. (Or Tom Daschle's telling Tom Brokaw, on MSNBC, that the Gore-Lieberman ticket had a "50-50" chance of winning...