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...SCENE RIGHT OUT OF THE BIRDS. OUTSIDE the New Hampshire home of former state senator Barbara Pressly on a freezing winter afternoon, a lone cameraman appeared; then a second camera; then four boom mikes. Twenty minutes later, when the press was invited inside, 50 men and women with full field packs stampeded toward the front door. Finding myself by happenstance between them and their goal, I had a fleeting sensation of what General Custer might have seen in his last moment on this earth...
George and Barbara Bush are part Episcopacy--they met as a result of being born into the same social class. Bill and Hillary Clinton are part Mandarin--they met in the library of Yale Law School. It could be argued that the Clintons are the first White House occupants who are pure products of the meritocratic machinery that makes Mandarins. Both grew up in provincial obscurity without any connections to the big time. Both, by their early 20s, had been clearly marked for membership in the Establishment by virtue of their accumulation of golden educational credentials. They filled their Administration...
...State and Local Government Program helps leaders respond to the demand for reinvention and the need to provide public-private partnerships," former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts, director of the program, told the Gazette. "We are eager to incorporate the substantial experience and expertise the Fannie Mae Fellows will share with our program and their co-participants...
...didn't want to get into a show-by-show debate," says Ed Donnerstein, communications and psychology professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where most of the monitoring was done. "We didn't want to point fingers." George Gerbner, former dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication and a longtime chronicler of TV violence, agrees with the study's big-picture approach. "Anytime you give a name of a program, it lends itself to endless quibbling," he says. "The question is not what any one program does or doesn't do. The question...
SABINA CATHERINE FORBES Big potential. In TV spots for hubby, she projects Bushlike quality--Barbara, not George...