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...Both candidates this year are highly vulnerable to attack. The temptation to firebomb in those areas of vulnerability will, I suspect, be too great to resist. What areas? In the case of George W. Bush: abortion, capital punishment, gun control - all fairly passionate and motivating issues - and on top of those, what might be called the Doofus Dismissal: the persistent rap that he is not smart enough to be president. The first three questions will invite increasingly vicious us-versus-them rhetoric; the last will eat away at Bush by insinuation and late-night comedy...
This November's presidential election will be a pivotal moment in deciding the country's direction on issues from education to gun control to saving Social Security...
...Throwing what some Yale starters laughed off as a "BP fastball," sidearmer Mike Marcucci '98 went 7-0 in relief and could never have cracked 80 on the radar gun. Being on such a single-minded and intelligent team made everybody better and produced some of the most thrilling moments in the last four years of Harvard athletics. I salute the 1997-2000 Crimson. Real baseball players, all of them...
...armed Katyusha rocket (the favored artillery of the Hezbollah guerrillas for attacking northern Israeli towns). The system tracked the incoming rocket, and blew it up with an invisible laser beam created by a chemical reaction in a battlefield weapon. "This is really the first time you have a ray gun with a real-world application," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Of course it doesn't have any capacity to discriminate between different objects, it simply destroys whatever's in its path. But a lot of people are very excited about this...
...upside is Corzine has a message. Winning with a platform of unabashed liberalia about universal health care, universal gun registration and state-funded college educations suggests that the victory was about more than money. And it's not as if his opponent, former New Jersey governor Jim Florio - who raised and spent less than $3 million - had a visibility problem. He was the devil New Jerseyans knew, and they told him where to go. In defeat, Florio called his vanquisher "a threat to democracy," but will still support Corzine against a Republican closer to Florio's own tax bracket...