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...South Dakota Republican primary last night and bid for a back-up win in Minnesota's presidential caucuses, with Vice President George Bush far behind in both states. Dole defeated former television evangelist Pat Robertson to win Minnesota's Republican presidential caucuses last night, with Bush a distant fourth behind Rep. Jack Kemp...
...Bartfuss is more than passably good. Appelfeld quietly works the particulars and lets the generalizations take care of themselves. The half-light of early mornings and the battening darkness of late nights are the dominant tones of the book. Bartfuss's thoughts and feelings -- about his hateful wife, his distant + daughters, the treasure hidden in the basement -- have the cool clarity of the day's most private hours...
...which reveal that most children are grateful for Social Security because it relieves them of some of the responsibility for taking care of their elders. Some, but not all. Financial responsibility is only one of several kinds, and perhaps not the most burdensome. An ailing parent, even in a distant city, can take an emotional toll on adult children. In many cases the parent may be living in the same town -- or the same house. Already, says Fordham's Marjorie Cantor, former president of the Gerontological Society, "the family is the major source of support for the elderly. And there...
...flip side of Dole's Iowa victory was Vice President George Bush's defeat. Despite his status as Reagan's heir apparent, the advantages of office and more than $5 million in campaign funds, Bush finished a distant third, with a slim 19% of the vote. Pat Robertson, the former religious broadcaster who has never held public office, stunned the Republican establishment with 25% of the vote and a second-place finish, emerging as a powerful and potentially disruptive force...
...this sun-creased survivor of courted hardships and invited dangers spends most of his time in northwestern Kenya, near the village of Maralal. There, TIME Correspondent James Wilde found Thesiger living simply in a mud- caulked house with a distant view of the Great Rift Valley escarpment. The shelter has a concrete floor, wire-mesh windows, no electricity and no well. There is a separate sleeping hut that the author shares with up to 15 villagers and tribal friends who, he notes, "snore like elephants...