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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iowa's winners. On that heady morning of Feb. 9, they could have been excused for addressing themselves in the mirror as "Mr. President." Bob Dole and Dick Gephardt had just won the Iowa caucuses (remember them?) and had every reason to expect a surge that would carry them to their nominations. But the glow did not survive Super Tuesday, and last week they bowed to the inevitable and quit the race. More than 3,000 reporters covered the Iowa campaign. In the end it turned out to be less important than the Michigan Democratic caucuses, for which nary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Grapevine | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...background to the player photo is a weird blue art deco pattern that belongs in MOMA, not the AL and NL. At least most of their photos are much more professional than in 1981, when you couldn't tell Dick Tidrow from Dennis Lamp from Captain Caveman because of the Instamatic photos. Unfortunately, their 1988 photo of Kent Hrbek still has all the sharpness of a crayon drawing...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: Examining This Year's Baseball Cards | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

Quote of the Week:"I haven't had this much fun since the pigs ate my brother," said Harvard's Trainer Dick Emerson at a frigid Soldiers Field during Harvard's doubleheader against Norhteastern...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Court Calling | 4/8/1988 | See Source »

Since the media felt it had the right to delve into Senator Joseph Biden's plagiarism in law school and to ridicule Rep. Dick Gephardt's record of flip-flops in the past decade, it has the responsibility to apply the same standards of scrutiny to Jackson...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: It's Time to Take Jesse Seriously | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...Dukakis, silently doing the math once more; Gephardt, even if he could sway all his delegates, could not assure the nomination. "Forgive me, Ted," Dukakis said, "but really this is not the forum to be holding such conversations. As I've said before, I'll be talking with Dick and many others, but I don't think this is the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Scenario for Breaking the Gridlock | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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