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) A NYT "Week in Review" piece ticks off seven potential catastrophes that could jeopardize Bush's coronation as the GOP candidate-designate.
In addition to the usual list of catastrophes (power outages, plane crashes, etc.), it foresees 10 million to 300 million deaths from food shortages and accidental nuclear missile launches.
But she understood that a tone of cool authoritativeness left no room for her childhood catastrophes, her anger at getting a girl's paltry education, her palpable delight in reading.
MARK SHIELDS (on CNN's Capital Gang ): Bob Novak, what were the great catastrophes of the 20th century?
If Albright's childhood is marked by the catastrophes of 20 th -century European history, her early adulthood unfolded amid the complacencies of the American '50s.