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...taught him that "the status quo is really powerful. In times when there is not a crisis, it's hard to get people to act boldly." And Bush knows from watching his father what happens when a desire for boldness is applied to a vice-presidential pick. Two words: Dan Quayle...
...Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut. But there was talk today that either Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana and House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri could become alternative options." And Gore himself "tantalizingly raised the prospect of an 'out-of-the-box' wild card contender." (Ceci Connolly and Dan Balz) So, what's the style for "wild card...
...made it a selling point. This is a man who falteringly reads a letter written to him by grade-schoolers - "We hope that you will make the world safer. And that there will be no more bad guys" - and sound as if he wrote it himself. And yet, in Dan Quayle this was frightening; in George W. Bush, to some huge chunk of the electorate, it's a relief...
...farmland planted in genetically altered corn now stands at nearly 25%. Some 70% of processed food in American supermarkets, from soup to sandwich meat, contains ingredients derived from transgenic corn, soybeans and other plants. Yet all of a sudden, activists are "yelling fire in a movie theater," says Dan Eramian, spokesman for the Biotechnology Industry Organization...
...curious charms of Cheney is that he is not, as vice presidential choices sometimes are, a question mark. George W.'s father in 1988 gambled on what he hoped would be an attractive unknown, Dan Quayle...