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Gerg P. Long, 22, lives in Dorchester but is working part time as a parking attendant at a lot between Harvard and Central Squares. From his post inside the booth at the lot's entrance, Long says he plans to vote for Bush...
...funny thing happened when they wrangled over Bosnia for a day last week. Bush looked vulnerable on foreign matters, and Clinton showed he was not afraid to attack him. More important perhaps, it reminded voters of the fundamental choice they make when they step into the ballot booth each four years: Who deserves to sit in the Commander in Chief's chair? That used to boil down to whose finger Americans wanted on the nuclear button. But in the post-cold war era, does it matter if that man is George or Bill...
...issue posed by the '92 Games is not the coverage's quality. (The judging from here: a respectable bronze medal for Bob Costas' cool authority in the anchor booth and those welcome stretches of silence from the gymnastics commentators during crucial routines.) The issue is quantity. NBC scheduled a typically excessive 161 hours of coverage over the Olympics fortnight. In addition, the network put together an elaborate pay-per-view package: three additional channels of events, running 24 hours a day (12 of them live). Cost: a hefty $125 for the 15-day package...
...least 20 points. "At the rate we're going we may end up having to do the McGovern spot," says a Republican consultant. At the end of his disastrous 1972 campaign, George McGovern ran a TV commercial in which a conflicted citizen considered his choice in the voting booth: "Either way it won't be a disaster," the man muttered to himself. "So I'll be voting for Nixon. Why rock the boat? I'm not crazy about McGovern . . . But me vote for Nixon? . . . My father would roll over in his grave . . . Maybe McGovern can do the job . . . Yeah, McGovern...
...think the morale is high," says Jeffrey W.Booth, a library assistant in Widener. Booth sayshe finds support and interest among exempt staffmembers, professional librarians and lower-levelmanagement...