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There are thousands of places that need volunteers to paint walls, rock crack babies, be big siblings, be teachers' aids, read for the blind, lead after school programs...the list goes on and on. I probably don't have to explain the value of community service and helping the underprivileged or needy, but many people, even Harvard students, aren't motivated enough to actually go and work in a soup kitchen or help build a playground...
...Reagan was too old and doddering for the office. Given the record of his second term (his fogginess on the details of < Iran-contra, Nancy Reagan's astrologer), these turned out to be legitimate concerns. But they vanished in the second debate as soon as Reagan delivered his practiced crack that he had no plans to "exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience." What was ironic was that Reagan's closing statement in that same debate, a scarcely coherent ramble about a trip down the Pacific Coast Highway, turned out to be a telling illustration...
...time he landed dead in a pool swelling with the red of his own blood at the end of "Scarface," Pacino had become a hero to the dispossessed. He was the toughest bad guy in Hollywood, and only a wave of submachine-gun fire powerful enough to crack the USS New Jersey in two could bring him to his final, glorious swan dive...
...method of scoring the debate may not be scientific, but then, in personality-driven popularity contests, it's only perception that matters. Which candidate didn't mention any members of his family? Which candidate did not say he personally had held a crack baby--but only that his wife had? Which candidate announced that "democracies are our friends"? Well, Herbert Ross Perot, George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton respectively...
...into an unfathomable numbers war about growth stimulants and deficit philosophy, permitting Bush to portray both men as simply too willing to raise taxes -- an attack that could force Clinton to defend his plan with a few thousand academically sound but mind-boggling words reminiscent of Mark Twain's crack about Wagner's music: "It's better than it sounds...