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MARK SMITH
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Best response to caucuses: presidential primary
As should be clear by now, the uproar over the caucuses goes deep and deserves the simplest possible result:

Cloud of coarseness hovers over Clintons
WASHINGTON -- In 1976, Fred Harris -- a populist precursor of this year's version of John Edwards, championed "the little people." When he finished fourth with just 10.8 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, he cheerfully explained that the little people were too little to reach the levers on the voting machines. Soon Edwards will join Harris in the book of presidential trivia. (What presidential candidate was known as "Little Lyndon from Lawton"? Answer: Former Sen. Harris from Lawton, Okla.) Meanwhile, note this:


Letters to the Editor

Bill's personal contest with Barack
Part of it is that Bill Clinton is crazy like a fox.

Plant world peace and let it grow
Some might argue that peace -- a world without war -- is unattainable without the intervention of aliens or highly functioning, discriminate robots. And it is true that throughout history some have taken the high road, advocating for peace and harmony, only to be struck down.














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