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From The Windows Of My Office In Boston ... I Can See The Golden Stairs From Boston Harbor Where All Eight Of My Great-grandparents Set Foot On This Great Land For The First Time. That Immigrant Spirit Of Limitless Possibility Animates America Even Today.

It's Disgraceful That Year After Year, Congress Has Bowed To The Tobacco Lobby And Refused To Act.

If We Set The Precedent Of Limiting The First Amendment, In Order To Protect The Sensibilities Of Those Who Are Offended By Flag Burning, What Will We Say The Next Time Someone Is Offended By Some Other Minority View, Or By Some Other Person's Exercise Of The Freedom The Constitution Is Supposed To Protect?

Earlier This Week ... Scientists Announced The Completion Of A Task That Once Seemed Unimaginable; And That Is, The Deciphering Of The Entire Dna Sequence Of The Human Genetic Code. This Amazing Accomplishment Is Likely To Affect The 21st Century As Profoundly As The Invention Of The Computer Or The Splitting Of The Atom Affected The 20th Century. I Believe That The 21st Century Will Be The Century Of Life Sciences, And Nothing Makes That Point More Clearly Than This Momentous Discovery. It Will Revolutionize Medicine As We Know It Today.

We Need The Breast And The Brightest To- Umm The Best And The Brightest.