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...them on their foibles. Perennial Democratic Presidential candidate Richard Gephardt is an earthling whose body has been taken over by aliens: "I keep expecting him to reach under his chin and peel back that immobile, monochromatic, oddly smooth face to reveal the lizard beneath." For Hertzberg, who was Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter, Ronald Reagan's genius was to "paste a smiley-face on Armageddon's grinning skull." An American liberal, he combines the verve of Joe Klein with the precision of Michael Kinsley. Few in deadline journalism consistently display Hertzberg's grace or humor...
...charisma did not go unnoticed by political potentates, in California (Jerry and Willie Brown sang his praises) and Washington (Walter Mondale and Rosalyn Carter appeared with him). For a time, he was head of San Francisco?s Housing Authority. But the whispers about his predatory sexual appetite (which devoured parishioners of both sexes) and his reluctance to let disaffected members leave the fold caught the attention of the authorities. Jones moved the Temple to the Guyanan jungle, out of which his flock built an impressive village, Jonestown, housing thousands of Temple worshipers and their families. In a newsreel clip, Jones...
...online police log. A campus security watchdog group says that’s not enough. “Without this bill, members of the Harvard community will continue to be denied critical campus crime report information that their peers at public colleges get,” S. Daniel Carter, a senior vice president at Security on Campus, said yesterday. “For example, you’d get details about suspects who are accused of, say, committing a robbery, whereas in a crime log situation you get information that there was a robbery reported,” Carter said...
...Gasp. Tell Americans to drive less? Though a fractional reduction in driving across the country would dramatically reduce demand and prices, few things are more frightening to public officials, especially six months before an election, than telling Americans to conserve. Instantly, the image of Jimmy Carter in a cardigan on national television morosely telling Americans to turn down their thermostats appears before the lawmakers? eyes. The country's current malaise and confrontation with Iran are already reminding Americans of those the dark days before Reagan?s Morning in America...
...Democrats? Their leaders too have been largely silent on encouraging conservation. They're not about to be the ones to remind Americans that Jimmy Carter was their man. The Democrats' most notable proposal so far: a suggested $500 rebate check to taxpayers, an idea they quietly dropped after seeing the failure of the smaller GOP proposal...