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Impeachment does not have a nice ring. In fact, people hated Nixon so much that no president has used middle names--or even initials--since. Not Gerry Ford or Jimmy Carter (who actually requested once that history books call him "Jimmy" and not James Earl) or Ronald Wilson Reagan...
...odds of joining the flourishing ranks of lotto millionaires are still longer than the risk of being struck by lightning. About 90 million players will ring up $20.6 billion in ticket sales this year. So far, 34 states have joined the lottery gold rush, raking in vital revenues for depleted coffers. Charles Clotfelter and Philip Cook, professors of public policy and economics at Duke University, challenge the games of chance as regressive, inefficient means of raising revenue and suggest they prey upon minorities and the poor. The professors also wonder whether the lotteries' get-rich-quick appeal undermines the American...
...quick of a lyric with the easy emotion of Bennett. The selections range from the pop- heavy The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1950) through some surprises (a swinging, ebullient 1967 version of Al Jolson's Keep Smiling at Trouble) to 1989's high and handsome When Do the Bells Ring for Me. If the material is lacking, as in Song from "The Oscar," Bennett can raise it with a combination of precise technique and personal commitment. If the song is solid, he'll enhance it with openhearted skill. The touchstone of his gift is simplicity, so then...
...seven rounds was a logical next step that could prevent haunted individuals from committing mass murders. During the House debate, one legislator did switch his vote: Chet Edwards, a Texas Democrat and gun-control opponent whose district includes Killeen, site of last week's killings. "Suddenly, the old arguments ring hollow -- 'Guns don't kill people, people do' . . . This is one step, one reasonable, commonsense effort to put in regulations in the real world of crazed individuals and criminals...
Says Christina A. Kowalewski '95, "It's hard to really support anyone because not all the candidates have thrown their hats in the ring and not all the candidates are being totally open about what they stand...