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Dukakis, by bantering with George Bush about this and other soporific issues, is putting his followers asleep. He is leaving them nothing to cheer about, no reason to say, "I am going to get up on election day and vote for Dukakis because of what he will do about this...
...listens to the nightly stream of wisecracks from Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman -- and the candidates themselves. Tongue-in-cheek self- deprecation has become a favorite rhetorical tactic. Dukakis initiated it at a Democratic luncheon before his acceptance speech in Atlanta, joking that his wife had fallen asleep while reading the text. Bush's own acceptance speech was peppered with such put-downs as "I'll try to be fair to the other side; I'll try to hold my charisma in check." The aim is both to lower expectations and defuse the critics with humor. But does anybody...
Suzanne Davis, the operations manager for TIME's news service, was asleep in her New Orleans hotel room last week when the exuberant strains of a jazz band broke the 5 a.m. calm. The music came from a courtyard beneath her window that ABC's Good Morning America was using during the Republican Convention. Though Davis had arranged housing for the TIME staffers who attended the event, she had not been warned that her own hotel would become a predawn television set. "At least," she says wryly, "they were playing a snappy tune...
...their cars and zoom to their favorite vacation spots, thousands end up in grisly pile-ups. "Every vacation it happens the same way," says a Paris insurance clerk. "You have types who load their whole family into a small car and try to drive all night, until they fall asleep. You can look at the map and know exactly where they are going to run off the road. It's always the same place...
...first time since October 1984, when a bomb ripped through a Brighton hotel during a Conservative Party conference, the Irish Republican Army has successfully moved its bloody campaign to Britain. At Inglis Barracks in north London, 14 British soldiers were asleep in their living quarters when an I.R.A. bomb exploded just before 7 a.m. A lance corporal was killed, and nine soldiers were injured...