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...first phoned the Republican Reassurer last winter after reading an article about Bush as a fraternity boy at Yale. "Listen, R.R.," I said. "I knew people who were Dekes at Yale--perfectly nice people who may have thought of breaking furniture on weekends as their extracurricular activity. I've got no problem with that. But president of Deke! Isn't that an indication that he took it seriously...
...first rappers b) Yearning to be free c) Deke brothers d) Cannibals...
...time, he made it the center of his social life. His run-in with the law came not during an antiwar sit-in or a civil rights march but on a raucous night when he and his fraternity brothers "liberated" a Christmas wreath from a local hotel to decorate Deke house. Though he was born in New Haven, it was at Yale he decided to tell people he was from Texas...
...wish I could offer George W. Bush some advice about how to fend off efforts to portray him as a dimwit, but even Dan Quayle rejected the only slogan I came up with when he had a similar problem: "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House." Political pundits are warning us that the public is in danger of seeing all the presidential candidates as caricatures--McCain as a hothead, for instance, and Gore as a manlike object and Forbes as a terminal dork. Just who might be responsible for leaving the voters with these impressions...
...Chait is right, "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House" would be precisely the sort of slogan Bush's campaign should avoid. When reporters ask him questions designed to discover whether he really has read James Chace's biography of Dean Acheson, he shouldn't answer with some foreign-policy boilerplate from his stump speech. He should say, "Couldn't finish it. Too many long words...