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GARRISON KEILLOR
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G.O.P. recipe for success: God and Marriage
There is a natural division of labor in politics: The Republicans fuss about the sanctity of marriage and getting God back in the schools and the Democrats about health care and the $8 billion that vanished in Iraq, and so far the Republicans are doing a better job. God is in the schools, the same as He is in Nebraska or even in Dallas, and marriage looks to be doing okay, since the White House is not in charge of it. Meanwhile, the Pentagon and the Justice Department are investigating fraud in Iraq, one grain of sand at a time, and we are likely to have answers in a decade or two.
When a hero falls from the pedestal
To many U.S. baby boomers, Watson and Crick are the names of heroes. It was James Watson and Francis Crick of the United States who, with Britain's Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling and Maurice Wilkins, cracked the "double helix" genetic code and won three 1962 Nobel prizes in medicine (Franklin died in 1958 and Nobels are awarded only to living people. Raymond Gosling was not an award recipient.)
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