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...What Bush has to do is appear reasonable and not bloodthirsty," says a Bush adviser. "That puts him just where most Americans are. And that's what he did this week." But the race is likely to be decided in a bloc of the Great Lakes states where the death penalty is not a major civic tradition. Michigan, for instance, has no death penalty, and the state's Republican Governor, John Engler, opposes capital punishment. So does Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. There's been one execution in Ohio since 1976, three in Pennsylvania. "The hang-'em-high culture of Texas...
...final legacy after all. Instead, we may create a gerontocracy of such unity and might that it will either utterly dominate the American political map or provoke all-out generational warfare. In a nation in which only 66 million vote in off-year congressional elections, a bloc of some 80 million people motivated by their desperate self-interest will become dauntingly powerful...
Despite Western allies, the world's last bloc of true monarchies--Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the little gulf sheikdoms, Morocco and Jordan--isn't off the hook either. Monarchy went out of political fashion in the 20th century. Most Arab dynasts have held on thanks to oil, isolation or tribal and family loyalties. But petrodollars also educated a generation now eager to connect with a globalizing world...
...women shot up 838%--four times as fast as for all others--jumping from 53,000 to 497,000. In contrast, filings by husbands and wives rose just 138%, from 178,000 to 423,000. Once a small minority in bankruptcy court, women now comprise the largest single bloc--39% of all personal-bankruptcy cases--more than men or couples...
...Friday, when chairman Hatch realized that Republicans could inadvertently be creating a new voting bloc--anti-anti-Castro Cuban Americans--he postponed the hearings (forever, perhaps?) and rethought the possible witnesses. But Democrats will surely insist on calling "the Fisherman"--a cross between Kato Kaelin and William Ginsburg. It will be a priceless television moment when Dalrymple tells how he and Marisleysis let Elian lick his face. The Democrats will also relish hearing from the paramilitary group, Alpha 66, and the four guards with concealed-weapons permits who patrolled the encampment...