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Barile, a feisty 78-year-old, figures that if Bob Dole can run, so can he. Unlike the former Senate majority leader, however, this retired newspaper printer can cite an unsuccessful run for Fresno freeholder in the 1950s as his only political credential. Nevertheless, Barile says he is fed up...
Talent is the oldest, the classic American path, made up of people who simply go out and engage in a self-initiated activity, hoping it will bring them money, status or acclaim. The yeoman farmers and skilled artisans of the colonial period are examples. Today people who start businesses are...
What kid wouldn't like to be president? Like many on this campus, I saw the presidency as the ultimate credential when I was younger. Precocious youngsters develop the need for affirmation; someone telling them that they are somehow the best and brightest. And for the now-mature over-achievers...
But the decision to accept him officially as a teacher, not just a visiting lecturer, has given him a new credential for his lucrative speechmaking and perhaps even his contract with ABC. Will would be a fool, and he certainly isn't one, if he or his agent did not...
How can North and Duke get so far with such pockmarked pasts? Sure, they both have that gap-toothed charisma, but neither of them came from any side of politics except the underside. It seems that a claim to being "a good Christian"--or at least a repentant one--has...