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Jewish student Sarah Arntsen ended up with a swastika on her door. They were still in their pajamas, still standing in their fungus-fighting flip-flops, when the girls of Bornhuetter Hall first noticed the words scrawled outside their doors. Slut, Fuck the hippie bullshit, Vote Goldwater, and other slurs were emblazoned on the walls and doors of the College of Wooster's brand-new dormitory. Two roommates -- one Jewish, one black -- woke to find a swastika and I hate minorities written in dry-erase marker on their message board. Maintenance crews raced to cover the vandalism in time for the dorm's official...

It's been about a week since the presidential election, just about enough time to get the celebrating and crying over and done. Even so, I'm sure a whole lot of folks on both sides are still wondering how and why things turned out the way they did. Well, I'm going to tell you. It was the voicesthe actual speaking voices of the people who were running for office. Sure, wedge issues, voting records, car bombs and beheadings had something to do with the outcome. But you could strip all that away, and the voices alone were enough to get Bush...

John Kerry supporters such as Rhonda Morton of Corning woke up depressed Wednesday. It got no better after Kerry conceded the election to President Bush. "Part of me wants to just give up on the whole political process," said Morton, a writer, artist and longtime peace activist. "Part of me just wants to go live in Europe. Truly, that is something I'm considering." Mansfield University student Adriel Chaney, 31, of Philadelphia, isn't moving to Europe, but he was angry Wednesday with some voters. "I voted for Kerry," he said. "I just knew that Florida would go the opposite direction. People...

It is increasingly clear that President Bush's line of attack against Kerry will be to describe him as a flip-flopping politician, changing his positions constantly to suit the political needs of the moment. One negative ad, previewed on "Meet the Press," showed an animation of two John Kerry boxers battling one another. The winner? George W. Bush. The obvious goal of the Bush attack is to discredit Kerry and make it hard for anyone to believe in him or anything he says. But this round of flip-flop attacks is just the precursor of the main Bush offensive. Attacking Kerry for...

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"Analysts said the lack of a bounce may reflect the intensely polarized contest. Nearly nine of 10 voters say their minds are made up and won't change. "The convention, typically a kicking-off point for a party, is now merely a reaffirmation" of where voters stand, said David Moore, senior editor of the Gallup Poll." "The Washington Post adds, "By historical standards, Kerry's post-convention bounce is modest, at best a fact that set off a debate between the candidates' campaign advisers. The Bush team said Kerry's failure to gain more significant ground from his national convention puts him at a serious...

It's been called the ABB syndrome. Not to be confused with ADD, ABB is the lemming-like disorder that has infected too many adults, including many at the convention of minority journalists in Washington last week. I first saw ABB - Anybody But Bush - when a friend made it quite clear she had no intention of sitting through the stump speeches made by the presidential candidates. "I'd vote for Triumph the Comic Dog before I'd vote for Bush," she said. She didn't say she's for John Kerry. She's just against Bush. It seems easier, particularly for journalists who are obligated...

In his speech at the convention, Bill Clinton delighted the crowd by complaining about the unnecessary tax cut he had received. At a breakfast with Florida delegates, the actor Ben Affleck got into specifics, explaining that the Bush tax cuts had provided him with $1 million last year that he didn't need. It was a smart strategy to please the faithful in Boston, but the protests may raise a question for some voters: If you think the government has a better use for the money, why not give it back? When The Nation urged readers to send their tax rebates...

The difficulty delegates to the global warming conference in Kyoto encountered in reaching agreement on reducing greenhouse gases is likely to pale beside the trouble Republicans have promised the Clinton administration when it seeks ratification of the newly negotiated international treaty. As finalized early this morning, Japanese time, the Kyoto accord calls for industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse emissions by 6 percent to 8 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. It left aside until at least next year the contentious issue of how much developing countries would be required to cut their own emissions. Hours before the final agreement...