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...decisions last year by the HistoryDepartment to refuse tenure to AssociateProfessors Bradford Lee and Alan Brinkley, the twopast Levenson award winners, renewed the debate onthe role teaching ability should play in choosingsenior faculty...
...reason Jackson has been able to survive scrutiny--a thought columnists seem loathe to acknowledge--is that he, unlike virtually any other Democrat now running, has a loyal and well-defined constituency. Historian Alan Brinkley noted in The New York Times at the time of the Hart scandal that his campaign was mortally wounded by the Donna Rice affair precisely because he lacked a constituency. Hart was trading on his front-runner status and nothing more. The same could be said of Joe Biden. For a candidate without a natural constituency, any damaging revelation can bring a campaign...
...Jackson, as he proved in 1984 after the hymietown incident, has sufficiently strong backing from a sufficiently large group of voters to withstand the occasional damaging story. Brinkley noted that the phenomenon of the constituent-less candidate was a relatively new and not particularly encouraging one. Jackson is throwback to an earlier political landscape, when candidates ran because people wanted them to, not just because they thought they should be president...
Democratic Party Chairman Paul Kirk also sidestepped that question Sunday when interviewed on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley" program...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes a love story that throbs with the human comedy. -- David Brinkley' s wartime Washington...