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...opportunities attract big names. The list of would-bes, maybes and wannabes already includes former Vice President Dan Quayle, Senators Gramm and Bob Dole, ex-Cabinet members Jack Kemp, Dick Cheney, Jim Baker and Lamar Alexander and Governors Pete Wilson of California and William Weld of Massachusetts. (And maybe Pat Buchanan, the two-fisted talking head, but he's given little chance to last beyond the first primary.) Though the real campaign season won't begin until later, some of the big names were on display last weekend for one of the notable pre-season events: the Washington conference...
...Laurence Fishburne, "What's Love Got to Do With It"-- He's the Bes Supporting...
...result of Wills' sojourns is this week's probing study of Clinton's roots. Wills, of course, is no stranger to the task of getting inside the mind of American politicians, having written six books on American Presidents as well as many in-depth articles on incumbents and would-bes. Since he profiled Ronald Reagan in 1987, Wills has written 15 articles for TIME about the forces and people that shape America's political soul. So prolific is this one-time Jesuit seminarian that he occasionally loses count of the number of his books. "Fourteen, or maybe...
...best. Seven close games would offer a shiny showcase for two nicely matched teams that took a steep new route to the top. After a decade or so of balky, highly paid superstars, the Twins and Braves built their franchises on has-beens and gonna-bes. Call it postmodern baseball...
Most gang members are in their late teens and early 20s, but kids as young as ten or eleven readily join. They are called "wanna-bes" and are looked on even by the cops as apprentices in the trade. Yet it doesn't take much for a wanna-be to earn full stripes. According to Henry, 13, a Grape Street Crip, the only difference between "little gangsters" and "big gangsters" is firepower: little gangsters use .22s or .25s; big gangsters, .38s or Uzis...