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The president is in a strong enough position now to take his own rhetoric on reforming entitlements (which he added to his address at the last minute) seriously, and to drop leftover junk ideas from the campaign like the Victims Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
A Washington Post piece bathed her in golden light: She hopes to go to graduate school in sociology, she's scrimping because she doesn't want to burden her parents financially, she is so much a hostage to the media that she couldn't attend her own mom's wedding, and--the icing on the cake--she has taken up knitting.
More than that, they're inherently suspicious of one another: They see through their buddys' superheroic poses--and their own.
"It's as if they've been brainwashed by all the admiring profiles of Bill Gates and Steve Case into thinking that their own considerable achievements aren't big enough."
Senate investigators have discovered, says the paper, that only 30 percent of hospitals have formal Y2K plans, and that 90 percent of physicians are not addressing the issue in their own offices.