GUEST COLUMN: Will nation be better off two years from now? While a group of civic-minded 8th graders mulled over and offered up candidate selections for president in 1976, I believe it was Mike Zappitello who threw out the name of a little known governor who fashioned himself a true Washington outsider. The acrimony heaped upon poor Mike for such a prediction, combined with the deafening outpouring of "who the heck is he?" caused St. Francis Cabrini librarian Miss Fedor to kick us all out of the library for a week. | 