Politics as America’s Greatest Spectator Sport Then and Now
A long reflection argues politics replaced baseball as the nation’s premier drama, detailing presidents, scandals, reforms, and media power from Roosevelt to Clinton. It notes voters' swings, party shifts, and the enduring belief that any citizen can become president, concluding with a call to love it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Babe Ruth
Franklin Roosevelt
Whiskey Trust
Grain Trust
Meat Trust
Dole
Clinton
United States
Facing Mars Life Questions and the Next Space Mission
Arden Albee of Caltech reflects on the Mars Observer findings suggesting primitive life may have existed on early Mars. He notes implications for future missions, carbonate geology, and the enduring questions of life beyond Earth.
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Mars
Percival Lowell
Orson Welles
H.G. Wells
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Martian
NASA
Cape Canaveral
Earth
Arden Albee
California Institute of Technology
Dangerous slide in the Mideast stalls U S peace efforts
The text argues Netanyahu's narrow election as Israel's prime minister stalls U S backed peace attempts with the Palestinians. It accuses his government of expanding settlements and denying Palestinian self rule while Arafat responds with harsher rhetoric, risking a larger regional confrontation.
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U.S
Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu
West Bank
Netanyahu
Likud
Hebron
Yasser Arafat
Middle East
Personal tragedy used for political gain at convention
Dan K. Thomasson critiques the Gore convention speech as a manipulation of personal tragedy to push a political agenda. He notes past tobacco ties and fundraising, calls the display maudlin and exploitive, and argues such emotional narratives belong in private, not politics.
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America
Walter Lippmanns
James Restons
White House
Washington
Albert Gore
Gore
Clinton
Clinton-Gore
Ing
Sen. Gore
Tennessee
Mike McCurry
Earl Long
Louisiana
This Day in History and Births of Notable Figures
This day marks events from 1863 to 1955 including disbarment of a U S lawyer, the New York Sun penny paper start, and Bill Haley and the Comets declining a tour invitation. Birthdays span Nicolo Amati to Charlie Sheen with varied professions. Weather note recalls Erie Pa reaching 99 degrees in 1953.
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Thomas Lechford
New York Sun
United States
Bill Haley
The
Comets
Nicole Amati
Louis Hand Sullivan
Erie
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General Motors
Harry Truman
Chicago
William Hale Thompson
England
Daley the
Newt Gingrich
Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
George Bush
Bob Dole
Republican National Committee
Watergate
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Bush
New Hampshire
Michael Jordan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Antarctica
Hollywood
Mideast
Dan K. Thomasson
Scripps Howard Newspapers
Scripps Howard News Service
Doonesbury
Garry Trudeau
Weer
Bummer
Alan Ladd
Kitty Carlisle
Anne Jackson
Valerie Petrine
Charlie Sheen
John Braler
Louis Henn Sylvar
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