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...York City. Roger Ailes, the Bush campaign's $25,000-a-month media consultant, winds down at home from an all-night session at his office, where he has been polishing two Bush television ads. One touts Bush's record, the other attacks Dole for supporting the national commission on the deficit, which the ad charges was proposed by Mario Cuomo, the "liberal Democratic Governor of New York." An Ailes assistant copies the ads and sends them by messenger to Pollster Robert Teeter and to campaign headquarters in Washington...
Bush asks Atwater about two Dole ads that attack Bush for waffling on taxes and leaving no marks in the jobs he has held: "Is he running the waffle ad? Any idea why they ran that snow-prints ad in Florida of all places?" Bush is pleased and relaxed. Things are going well. He turns to Fuller and says, "I wish the sand were running through the hourglass faster because everything feels real solid right now." Bush heads into the room next door and pedals a stationary bicycle for 20 minutes while watching...
Theater is the clue to understanding how we are choosing the successor to our first actor President. This may be one of Reagan's lasting legacies. Onstage the candidates offer performances of calculated civility, feigned rage and planned ad libs. Backstage the underlying hostility is real enough, among competitors not that far apart on the issues. It surfaces in moments of phony drama contrived to catch another fellow off guard, breaking the rhythms of his planned explanations and evasions. This the public sees in the televised debates; but with more candor and detail than in past campaigns, the press...
...John Wayne Hearn put a classified ad in Soldier of Fortune seeking "high risk assignments" and other work for ex-Marines and weapons specialists. Robert Black Jr. saw it and ended up hiring Hearn to murder his wife Sandra for $10,000. Both were convicted of the crime. But Sandra Black's mother and 18-year-old son also blamed Soldier of Fortune and filed a $22.5 million negligence suit against the combative, Rambo-lining magazine. Last week a federal jury in Houston ordered the magazine to pay $9.4 million in damages. "We're sending out a message to other...
...increase also will enable the Undergraduate Council to reconsider its policy of urging all grant applicants to become financially independent, said Council Treasurer Gregg P. Sands '88-'89. The council has formed an ad hoc committee to review the grants procedures in anticipation of the new funding, Sands said. He added that groups like Amnesty International and Room 13 have difficulty raising money on their...