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...calves were better, and as soon as the gun went off, I knew that it was going to be a good race," Baker said. "My breathing was under control, and I felt very relaxed. I had a good rhythm going that lasted the whole 6.2 miles...
...improve the general quality of life in our fair nation. Every Presidential hopeful has their own plan on how to reform health care, social security and/or public education. Political parties are falling over themselves to provide tax cuts. Politicians everywhere raise outcries over the massacre in Littleton and propose gun-control, tougher crime laws and/or censorship of the overly-violent media as solutions...
...nightmare replayed itself in Seattle. This time the suspect was a camouflaged gunman in his 30s who fatally shot two men at a shipyard and then escaped. Both incidents--along with last July's trading-floor massacre in Atlanta, where an investor killed nine people before turning the gun on himself--attracted extensive live coverage on TV news channels. Anyone tuning in could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. is in the grip of an epidemic of workplace homicides. Says Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear: "You start wondering whether the person at the next desk...
...massive contributions and six-figure donations" flowing to George W. Bush. McCain didn't mention Bush's name--and didn't have to. His issues are perfect weapons against Bush, who personifies the money game McCain wants to clean up. Otherwise, the two candidates' positions are similar--each opposes gun control and abortion and styles himself as tolerant and fiscally austere--but McCain is playing the maverick grownup to Bush's Establishment child...
...more intriguing. Metaphysics aside, his story is about a rebellious, frustrated child. Throughout most of the movie, Bartelby is the voice of reason, constantly rolling his eyes at Loki's own version of divine justice ("You didn't say 'God bless you' when I sneezed" Loki chastises, pulling a gun on an innocent woman). But after a theological discussion with an inebriated Bethany, feelings of betrayal consume him, feelings that God's just stopped listening. This frustration is compounded by God's unconditional love of humans: "In the beginning, it was just us and Him. Angels and God. And then...