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...friend reminds her compassionately that you "can still ditch your thesis and graduate General Studies." It doesn't help...
...When Willard Met Babe Ruth By Donald Hall (Browndeer; $16) This book, like much of Hall's adult work, is set in Wilmot Flat, New Hampshire. Here, some time ago, a burly fellow named Babe Ruth, then a member of the Boston Red Sox, slid his roadster into a ditch. Fortunately for the ballplayer, a team of oxen belonging to young Willard's dad was on hand to pull his car out of trouble. Hall, a sportswriter whose day job is penning poetry, has Willard follow the Babe's career the way fans all over the country did back then...
...unwelcoming crowd on the ground. Michigan and Illinois? Not good. Likewise Ohio. Forget New York. Even Florida is tilting the wrong way. That suggests an explanation for the official version of the Republican endgame, the one Dole's campaign embarked on last week. It calls for a last-ditch effort to win California and its 54 electoral votes, even if that means neglecting smaller but more promising potential swing states like Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As justification, Dole's team points to one important poll, the San Francisco-based Mervin Field survey. Early last week it showed Dole just...
CATHY BOOTH barely had time to glance at the Pacific before she leaped into her new job as West Coast bureau chief with the fervor that has kept colleagues' heads spinning for years. This week her bureau contributed to a typical array of stories, including Bob Dole's last-ditch campaign effort in California, the state's ballot initiative on marijuana, the latest rush of O.J. Simpson revelations and the retooling of the CBS sitcom Ink. Booth, who did standout reporting from Haiti and Cuba while heading TIME's Miami bureau, says of her new turf, "We have every story...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: That's Ross for Boss, not Ross in a supporting role. Bob Dole's last-ditch effort to shake up the presidential race stalled when Ross Perot rebuffed Dole's request to withdraw from the campaign and throw his support to the Republican ticket. In a rare campaign speech before the National Press Club on Thursday, Perot called Dole's overture "weird and totally inconsequential" and said he was in the race to stay. Perot said he would not discuss details of his Wednesday meeting with Dole campaign manager Scott Reed. But he said, "Do I intend...