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| | My Point / David M. Shribman: Howard Dean, straight up |
 | | Dean benefits subliminally, perhaps, from the doctor bit, and he may get a bounce from Vermont's reputation as a flinty, plain-spoken mountainous redoubt on the frosty frontier hard by Quebec. |
 | | The political establishment is having a grand time plotting the trajectory of Dean's progress, as if he were a tropical storm bearing down on Bermuda, and the current meteorology suggests that, now that Hurricane Dean has made landfall, he is veering right. |
 | | Coolidge believed that four-fifths of all the world's troubles "would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still." Dean believes that there is no problem in the world that cannot be ameliorated if he would only stand up and talk for a while. |
| www.post-gazette.com /forum/col/20030910edshribman0910p1.asp (2021 words) |
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