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When house hunters encounter the perfect palace, they typically must dash to the bank to arrange for financing before someone else snaps up their dream. Now comes perhaps the ultimate convenience for the charge-it generation: a silver-embossed piece of plastic signifying that the bearer has arranged a line of mortgage credit, which can be for as much...
Most people have probably never heard of Bill Lee, a former southpaw pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and later the Montreal Expos. Lee, nicknamed "The Spaceman" by his teammates and the local press for his eccentricity and outrageous antics, is the standard-bearer of the newly-formed American wing of the Rhinoceros Party. Running on a slogan of "No guns, no butter--they'll both kill ya," Lee represents a satirical political party based in Canada. More than 100,000 of our Northern neighbors voted Rhino...
Some Democratic leaders are already frustrated over the party's inability to coalesce around a nominee, especially now that the Republicans have all but chosen their standard-bearer. But the Super Tuesday delegate jam may have given the Democratic contenders -- particularly Dukakis and Gore -- a chance to catch their breath and remind themselves that a campaign should be a battle over ideas and visions, not merely synthetic campaign messages. At the moment, it is a democratic principle that only Jackson seems to understand...
...after the 20 state primaries on March 8, which will choose more than 30% of the convention delegates. Super Tuesday seemed perfect for a bandwagon bonanza: the winner would roar out of the South with enough momentum to coast to the nomination. Finally, the party would anoint its standard- bearer early enough and end the intraparty bloodletting soon enough so that he might carry something other than his home state and the District of Columbia come November. No more byzantine delegate arithmetic, no more bitter fights to the California primary, just a front-loaded primary calendar designed to produce...
...four of their old tribes: the country-club and Wall Street establishment, the Main Street heartland conservatives, the Religious Right and the fervent disciples of supply side. Reagan in 1984 could be claimed "one of us" by all of these groups. But this time, each has its own standard-bearer: Bush, Dole, Robertson or Kemp...