Word: forgottenness
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...That we've nearly forgotten how Gore's and Bush's prescription-drug plans stacked...
Unfortunately, legislatures caught up in the novelty of the electronic age have forgotten that the old-economy principles of fairness still apply--and that the public interest still has a role to play in preserving liberty in the face of license...
Like all homes, it has its lost treasures. In 1792 there was a grand dinner and 16 toasts by Freemasons from Georgetown after they laid the White House cornerstone over a brass marker. The location of stone and plate was quickly forgotten. No one is certain where it is today, despite high technology and old-fashioned dowsing rods. Truman did not find it during his renovation. And no modern President wants to cut into the sacred walls. That cornerstone, wherever it is, will lie undisturbed, one hopes, for at least another two centuries...
...badly designed ballot in Palm Beach County--and, perhaps, the first President in 112 years to gain office despite losing the popular vote. All his talk about gliding into Washington on the wings of a popular mandate--"a messenger of the people," as he once said--will be forgotten. If the Florida recount swings to Gore, he will have earned whisper-thin popular and electoral victories and the undying suspicion of millions of Bush supporters--people who absorbed the inaccurate Tuesday-night news reports that Bush had won and now might conclude that Gore stole the election...
...hence retained the ideas we all abhor and condemn. The West, which has for so long rejected Milosovic, now has embraced (rather too quickly) both a man who embodies the darker aspects of Serbian ultranationalism and a nation that still believes in it. Have Western leaders so quickly forgotten what that means? IVAN FARINA Sandycove, Ireland...