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...that a Bush envoy visited Minneapolis recently and spoke to Ventura allies about the Reform Party nomination. The envoy didn't explicitly push a Trump candidacy or a Ventura run--something the Minnesota Governor has officially ruled out. But the envoy did ask if Ventura would fight a Buchanan bid. The answer came back: he would welcome others in the race. (The Bush camp denies even sending an envoy.) Buchanan, of course, bristles at the idea of a Ventura-Trump-Bush alliance. He told TIME last week, "When people talk about the insiders fixing the game, that's exactly what...
What would Trump get from a race? He burnishes his brand name and, like Buchanan, he's peddling a book--The America We Deserve--due out in January. What does Ventura get out of a Trump bid? The former wrestler objects to Buchanan's social-policy views and may run on the Reform ticket in 2004. Trump is a perfect placeholder. And Ventura genuinely admires Trump. As one Ventura pal puts it, "They're both entrepreneurs who've had wild lives and believe in living their life as an open book. Their views are simpatico." Indeed, Ventura recently snickered that...
...leaves the G.O.P., he can never come back. According to a Bush ally, "We told Pat, 'Lose the [Reform] nomination, and you're a man without a country.'" The Bush camp has also argued that Ventura will use his power as Reform's ranking officeholder to thwart Buchanan's bid. Last week, they got help with this idea when Ventura told the congressional paper The Hill that New York City mogul Donald Trump is "a serious candidate" for President on the Reform ticket. A Ventura ally admits the Governor is wary of Buchanan because of his hard-right stand...
Dreamcast represents Sega's bid to reinvent itself. And analysts think it has a good shot. The machine is at least 10 times as powerful as its rivals and already has 18 new games available. Equally important, Sega introduced it with savvy marketing. That is a turnaround for a company that in 1989 was No. 1 in the gaming business but has since been steadily slipping, barely hanging on to third place with only 1% market share. Sega botched its 1995 Saturn rollout by alienating software developers and retailers with poor support and imperious directives. Sony has dominated the industry...
...team's performance was disappointing to her. The Crimson failed to win the Ivy title for the first time in three years, finishing second behind Dartmouth, an eventual NCAA quarterfinalist. The team seemed to lack the intensity that characterized Harvard throughout its NCAA bid the former year...