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...cause for this uncertainty? In the words ofone Ohio representative's assistant, "you dancewith those that brung you," meaning that everyrepresentative other than Joe Kennedy must ignoreeven Harvard if a constituent institution says...
...launched in the age of radio, remains a Midwestern phenomenon, and the setting of this novel keeps with Keillor's emphasis on rural storytelling. But along with Keillor's fondness for the land that "brung" him is his simultaneous desire to flee to the big city. The Law of the Provinces, Keillor writes in We Are Still Married, is this: Don't think you're somebody. If you were you wouldn't be here, you'd be on the coast...
...anyone but Martinez" than said they would vote for him (22%). Still, Florida's G.O.P. moneymen are sticking with him. "He's the guy who pulled it off in 1986 when the odds were against us," says Florida G.O.P. aide Stan Smith. "You dance with the guy who brung...
...politics is always more fun than government. And Bush, after all, won the White House last year by visiting flag factories and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Whatever the lawyers' cautions, any good politician knows another axiom: Dance with the one what brung...
Baker soon took over management of Ford's losing campaign and brought the President within an eyelash of beating Jimmy Carter. Four years later, the Reaganites tried to recruit Baker for the '80 campaign. But Bush was running, and Baker never hesitated to dance with the man who brung him. Moreover, he ensured Bush's selection as Reagan's Vice President, which wasn't easy. "What I'll admit to, but George never will," said Baker in 1981, "is that the Veep thing was always the fallback. It was always in my mind. That's why, at every opportunity...