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More powerful than its alumni-elected Board of Over- seers counterpart, the Corporation consists offive Fellows of Harvard College as well as thepresident and treasurer of the University...
...industrialization of logging in the Northwest to the California redwoods. Swathed in fringed and beaded leather, his beard tied with a thong and the ensemble topped with a fur hat, he resembles a strange kind of bear. His hilarious bouts of self-pity and childishness make Bunyan the perfect counterpart to his more serious companions...
...seat in 1978, cited "the ever-increasing vicious polarization of the electorate" as a major reason for his departure. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), who chairs the national Republican senatorial committee, said winning Exon's seat would be a GOP priority. D'Amato's Democratic counterpart, Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, now has to comb his largely Republican state for a replacement. Says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty: "It's just one more headache the Democrats don't need...
...oddsmakers see as quixotic: he is already vastly out-financed and out-organized. Until he decided to test the presidential waters, Lugar was best known for being passed over for the vice-presidential jobs taken by Gerald Ford, George Bush and most ignominiously in 1988 by his junior Indiana counterpart Dan Quayle. He survived that indignity with grace. Now he senses there is a hunger in the country for a grownup who excels at foreign policy, a quiet statesman who worries more about the next generation than the next election and who is the most experienced foreign-policy expert...
...symmetric counterpart is Deedee, a newlywed whose wandering eye is born of desperation and loneliness. She has escaped the sight of her cheating husband's empty pillow for the soothing rythym of the laundromat. Childlike Deedee's dreams extend only to having beer poured over her as she joins her husband in the winner's circle of a drag race...