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Beginning this week, Michael Kinsley, editor of the New Republic and author of that magazine's provocative "TRB" column, joins TIME as a regular contributor. If you are like most of his loyal readers, you'll love him. You'll also hate him from time to time. After all, Kinsley has a reputation for infuriating conservatives and liberals alike, except when he is busy delighting them. Apart from writing in the New Republic, Kinsley has been a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and has written for the Washington Monthly, Harper's and FORTUNE. No one is safe from...
...offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He won't tell us his plans for future TIME Essays . . . oops! articles, but we are braced for angry letters from just about anybody. We know what it is like to be on the receiving end of his wit. In a "TRB" column three years ago, Kinsley divided the number of words in TIME by the number of word journalists on our masthead. "That works out to slightly over 100 words a week per journalist," he wrote, explaining that the staff generates and then digests vast amounts of reporting, most of which never sees...
...tanned, he's rested, he's ready: Nixon in '88. Those T-shirt people were on to something. Nixon is back, this time as a political analyst for the London Sunday Times and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Some of the pronouncements from his first column: Dole ran a "determined, effective campaign" in Iowa, but "Bush is still the man to beat." Kemp is "building ^ a powerful case for the second spot on the ticket." Most curious is his prescription for the Democrats in the likely event of a deadlocked convention. Cuomo probably won't run, Nixon says, because...
...that wall may be made of rubber. Beanpot futility gives the Crimson a lot of bounce. As soon as the slash falls into the loss column, Harvard flys back, as if snapped out of the jaws of a rubber band...
...Tufts was afflicted by such forgetfulness, it was soon reminded that Harvard is synonomous with shutout. In their eight-year rivalry with the Cantabs, the Jumbos (4-7) have come up empty in the overall win column...