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...species in which each exploits the other to its own maximum advantage. In rare cases, such as parasitic wasps, creatures use each other for survival before one destroys the other. This is not unlike the current political morphology involving the genus Presidentum Candidatus, with those two familiar species, Robert Dole, Republican challenger, and Bill Clinton, Democratic incumbent...
Washington, as any biologist will tell you, is crueler than nature, and for the next few months rivals Clinton and Dole will find themselves in more or less intimate association, mutually dependent but wholeheartedly trying to annihilate each other...
...while trying to knife each other in the back. (The only sitting Republican Senator--not even a majority leader--elected President in this century was Warren Harding. His slogan: "Return to Normalcy.") For the next few months, voters will be able to observe a complex, multilevel game in which Dole and Clinton will be constantly analyzing who is hurt or helped by different legislative strategies. At this point, neither knows what the other is going to do. "I get mixed signals," says Dole. "Some say he really wants to get things done. Others say he could care less." Clinton...
...When Bob Dole decided to run for President, a small voice inside him, the voice of the Depression kid from hardscrabble Russell, Kansas, said, "Bob, don't quit your day job." And he didn't. Flying back to Washington last week on his campaign plane after wrapping up the nomination fight, Dole confided that he was "anxious to get back to work." Back to work? In other words, Dole was done moonlighting as a Republican primary candidate and now wanted to return to his real work, the job he knows and loves and does better than anyone else...
...Sense and Sensibility" is my personal favorite. "Apollo 13," aside from a few genuinely thrilling moments, was one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. The movie did not get off the ground until the astronauts did. To quote film critic David Denby, it's the Bob Dole of films. As for the rest: "Babe" stars animals and animatronics; who wants to see "Braveheart"?--not me; "The Postman" was sweet, but it has only received this much attention because its star died...