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...Perot is determined to retain influence in presidential politics, and his success could already be seen last week in the reactions of the presidential hopefuls. Most Republicans expressed anger that Perot might again, as in 1992, draw votes away from their nominee and thus help Bill Clinton. At the same time, though, candidates Lamar Alexander and Pat Buchanan--and President Clinton--tried to ape Perot's independent appeal by distancing themselves from the congressional "insiders" who dominate their respective parties...
...advice of most strategists was, Say nothing, and if you must say something, be neutral or at least soothing. Only California Republican Bob Dornan, who has nothing to lose, was brazen: "I think it was a racist decision." Pat Buchanan, the candidate many say is the product of white anger, stoked that resentment: "I don't respect the verdict because I think it was wrong." Bob Dole was empathic: "It is very important at this time that we use all our energies to find ways to understand each other." Lamar Alexander tried to have it both ways: "I believe...
...author and political analyst Kevin Phillips suggested that candidates need not be so coy, that discussing white anger over the verdict is perfectly legitimate: "The question is whether raising issues like affirmative action or immigration is something that is automatically defined as appealing to the worst in people. If you think people are justified in thinking affirmative action has turned into quotas and that immigration has been mishandled, then people are entitled to be angry about...
...than it is should never come at the expense of alienating large swaths of an irreplaceable faculty. Now is the time for compromise. Sacrificing his own ambitions and opinions for the good of the University is the only way for President Summers to lift the black pall of distrust, anger and estrangement now draping Harvard’s every corner...
...these remarks, while regrettable in their consequence, are not really the issue here. Instead, the Faculty’s anger is rooted in a long-held frustration with Summers’ perceived less than ideal transparency and powerful—and at times overwhelming—leadership style that has been bubbling under the surface for three and a half years...