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Pessimism will lead to defeat

If you have been paying attention to media reports, many politicians, including some Republicans and those often-wrong pollsters, believe the November election is a foregone conclusion. According to them, Democrats will win a House majority and possibly take over the Senate, too. History proves it, they say, because the party out of power almost always is victorious in midterms. Except when it’s not. Two recent examples should give Republicans hope. In 1994, the year many people remember, a “Republican Revolution” headed by Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich and his Contract ...

Horoscope: Friday, August 28

Friday, August 28 There’s honor in the hours you put in to progress the mission. Aries (March 21-April 19) What if you lost self-blame? After all, you couldn’t possibly see what actually happened from every angle, living in your own body and mind as you do. And blame simply doesn’t help. Let it go. Taurus (April 20-May 20) What if you lost your self-consciousness for a moment, or an hour, and simply became more yourself instead of the version you want them to see? It’s a risk. Maybe it will feel more scary than you think is worth that risk. But the more you do this, the ...

Anesthesia choice left up to patient

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m 78 years old and in pretty good health. I walk 3 miles four times a week, bike 8 miles once a week, and lift weights twice a week. Besides eye drops for glaucoma, the only medication I take is 20 mg of lovastatin each day. Due to corneal edema, I’ll be having a partial cornea transplant. My surgeon has asked me to decide which anesthesia I want: MAC or LMA. Can you explain the difference between them? Any advice or insights regarding these two forms of anesthesia would be helpful. — C.W.S. Answer: MAC is monitored anesthesia care, which is used with a regional ...

Betrayal comes to light decades later

Dear Annie: I’m going through a difficult divorce after 58 years of marriage to an alcoholic. Recently he told me two things I never knew: that he slept with my sister the night before our wedding and, years later, when they were both in the military, with a friend of mine. I always knew my sister flirted with him. She’d tried the same with two other sisters’ boyfriends, and she and my husband spent years publicly claiming to dislike each other while accusing one another of “trying something.” I always thought it was weird but harmless. I never imagined it went that far on ...

Peter Cullen, prolific actor who voiced Eeyore, dies at 85

NEW YORK — Peter Cullen, a prolific voice actor who enlivened scores of TV series, specials and movies, including Optimus Prime in the syndicated 1984 series “Transformers” and Eeyore in the Winnie the Pooh cartoon franchise, has died. He was 85. His agent, Kevin Motley, said Cullen ...

Yayoi Kusama, who splashed polka dots across art world, 97

TOKYO — Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who splashed her signature polka dots on paintings, sculptures and museum installations around the world, has died, her studio said Thursday. She was 97. Kusama died Aug. 14 at a hospital in Tokyo, Yayoi Kusama Studio said, without specifying the cause ...