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...fascination of the young for things American is wistful and sometimes weirdly askew. But it reflects a larger cross-cultural longing. In some ways, America and Japan are interesting commentaries on each other. The Japanese affinity for Americans represents in part the simple attraction of opposites. The Japanese live an intricate and compact life?119 million of them crowded onto islands the size of Montana. No new blood, or little, has entered the Japanese gene pool for 1,200 years. Americans are a sprawlingly expansive people whose years. Americans are a sprawlingly expansive people whose chromosomes are a genetic brawl...
...candidates, shows Glenn with 26% support, drawing close to Mondale's 30% rating. This is an increase of 5 percentage points for Glenn since last March and a decrease of 8 points for Mondale. The support for the other candidates: Cranston, 6%; Hart, 3%; former Florida Governor Reubin Askew, 2%; South Carolina Senator Ernest Rollings, 2%. Glenn, who draws more support from independents than Mondale, does even better in the poll when all voters are asked whether they find each candidate "acceptable" or "unacceptable." Glenn's acceptable/unacceptable ratio is 53% to 20%, Mondale...
OVER THE LAST couple of years, presidential aspirants Walter Mondale. Gary Hart and Reubin Askew and their staffs have made frequent calls on the Kennedy School of Government. Each knows that if he does not come up with a coherent alternative economic policy pretty soon, he can count on another four years on the outside. The candidates want new ideas not "tired" New Deal liberalism or "stingy" supply side Reaganomics. And the one door they've knocked on most is that of a cramped 2nd floor office where lecturer Robert B. Reich holds court. "I'm delighted to provide advice...
...last, to enter the race for the 1984 Democratic nomination. Glenn's Senate colleague, Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, earlier in the week joined the field, which already included former Vice President Walter Mondale, Colorado Senator Gary Hart, California Senator Alan Cranston and former Florida Governor Reubin Askew...
...this year's Massachusetts Democratic Convention did not start until the afternoon of Saturday, April 9, but the six campaigns set up shop in Springfield the night before to start wooing the delegates. Five candidates devoted their evenings to wining and dining for support; the more elaborate were Reubin Askew's Florida barbecue, California Sen. Alan Cranston's open-bar bash, and Ohio Sen. John Glenn's late-night Buckeye Blast. The sixth presidential aspirant, Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, conducted an Issues Workshop. In a cramped, stuffy room of the Stonehaven Inn, Hart and two MIT professors discussed President...