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...California and New York, two bellwether states McCain needed to win in order to remain a viable candidate, Republican voters chose Bush instead. In delegate-heavy Ohio, Bush won with a commanding 60 percent of the vote...
This is not to say that such a consortium should be completely beyond of the realm of possibility. Instead, we should follow the plan Harvard administrators have sketched out--follow the progress of the colloquium from a distance, and re-evaluate our position at a later date...
...education, McCain favors a bottom-up approach. Instead of national standards, he wants to streamline both federal and state educational bureaucracies, allowing school systems and individual schools to decide how best to spend education dollars. He also supports school choice and voucher plans...
Like Casablanca, we all have our clubs, our backgrounds, our lines of allegiance. Instead of Rick's, we have Tommy's; instead of Sam, a jukebox. Can we all get along? The answer that has been suggested, implemented and debated most hotly is randomization: Mix people up enough and they'll be forced to abandon their stolid alliances and acknowledge common ground...
When Ulysses Grant was dying of throat cancer in 1885, he wrote an oddly interesting note to his doctor: "I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be, to do, to suffer. I signify all three." Bush seems to be a kind of verb, or at least two-thirds of a verb, the doing and being part - an ordinary man perhaps, but given to common sense and fitted for action. That's the most favorable reading of him. But Gore, which part of speech is he? Pronoun? Half a dozen...