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...Bloom County Meadow Party candidates Opus and Bill the Cat may have only a handful of votes in their bid for the presidency in 1984, but their real-life Meadow Party counterparts at the University of Michigan managed to "slime" their way to victory in a recent Michigan Students Association (MSA) election...
Further campaign controversy involved the use of Bloom County character Opus on publicity flyers by the Michigan Meadow Party. The director of the MSA election accused the Meadow Party of violating copyright laws, Earle said...
...SUPPOSE I started out at birth with a 100 percent chance of eventually putting a Mrs. in front of someone's name. And according to the figures presented by Drs. Bennett, Craig and Bloom, I'll pass my 25th birthday with a 50 percent chance of marrying. Divide those 25 years into the remaining 50 percent, and you come up with a decrease of 2 percent in the likelihood that I will get married for every year I grow older...
That disagreement took the bloom off the Camp David accords, made it far more difficult for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to convince other Arabs that he had not sold out the Palestinian cause, and helped catapult the peace process into the limbo in which it remains today. How did the confusion arise? In a new book, Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics, published last week by the Brookings Institution, Middle East Expert William Quandt, a staff member of the National Security Council during the Carter Administration and a participant in the Camp David talks, provides an insider's account...
...patient chipping away at encrusted differences rather than by bold strokes. Shultz's own metaphor is of a gardener planting seeds, and though once thought likely to retire at the end of Reagan's first term, he now apparently intends to stay around to nurture those seeds into bloom. He told TIME: "It's an extraordinarily interesting and stimulating...