Word: bradley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard conducted a search for a replacement, and chose Joel Glass, a graduate assistant SID at Florida. Jeff Bradley, a 1986 graduate of the University of North Carolina--and younger brother of Seattle Mariners's catcher Scott Bradley--was brought in as a full-time intern...
Here's where it got complicated. The day after Glass accepted, he received an offer of promotion at Florida and decided to stay with the Gators. Bradley, in his first day on the job, was called in by Harvard SID Ed Markey and told the news...
...opening for another entry. Former Virginia Governor Chuck Robb was afraid Nunn would name him as a replacement. "If you do," Robb jokingly warned Nunn on the phone, "our long friendship is over." Nunn did, and also mentioned New York Governor Mario Cuomo and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley...
Laxalt also discovered the Shrinkage Phenomenon, a mysterious effect that diminishes prospects' stature as soon as they enter the race. As Cuomo observed last week, "The minute Bradley or Nunn or Cuomo or Bumpers or Celeste actually run, they become dwarfs like everyone else. The press will see to that." There is also the obverse effect, an optical illusion called the Sidelines Magnifier. When the Cuomos and Bradleys and Nunns stay out, wrapped in the dignity of duty or humility, they seem so much grander than those scurrying after votes and donations...
...reluctant warriors into the fray, though it is already too late for a new entry to organize for the early primaries. Those could of course transform one or two of the active dwarfs into giants. But if that does not happen, the murmurs about Nunn or Cuomo or Bradley sweeping in and brokering their way to victory could start up anew...