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Through the activities of LASTPAC, Citizens Against PACs and the citizens' lobby Common Cause, PAC is becoming a dirty word and a campaign cudgel. Pressured by PAC-shunning opponents and an anti-PAC crusade by the Boston Globe, the leading contenders in this year's Massachusetts Senate race-Democrats James Shannon and John Kerry and Republican Elliott Richardson-are refusing PAC support. Complains Shannon: "We keep hearing how quiet this race is. Well, without PAC money no one can afford to be on television or in the newspapers...
...pages of the New Republic, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic and other journals of the cognoscenti. Gurus abound in the likes of Robert Reich, I ester Thurow, and Charles Peters--and there are plenty of politicians who have been ready and willing to take up the "new ideas" cudgel: Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.). Sen Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.). Rep. Timothy Wirth (D-Colo.). And there are, of course, the requisite buzzwords: industrial policy, human capital and military reform are the current faces...
Mondale's aides sensed that Hart could be rattled. Said one: "Hart is quite brittle. He can't admit mistakes. They are always the fault of some aide." They had little trouble persuading Mondale to take up the cudgel. "He warmed right up to it," marveled an aide. Mondale believed that he had Hart cowed...
...Marvelous Marv Throneberry model (lifetime .237) is the sort of paradox that, scientists say, has trees talking to themselves. With two men out and one runner on base in the top of the ninth inning, the New York Yankees leading the Royals, 4-3, Brett took up his gooey cudgel and went out to meet Gossage...
...contagious: she grabs a letter opener and stabs him. From here, the scene changes to the hospital where he and his mother spend an hour and a half rehashing their unimaginative pasts, their guilt, their dreams. He even has a Rosebud--as a baby, his mother used him to cudgel a fellow who rejected her. Hence her numerous suicide attempts; hence her neglect of her cancer...