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With the pols shelved, enter the regular folk whose stories will be used to trumpet the Bush agenda. As one aide-de-Dubya put it, the emphasis is on "nontraditional groups," i.e., "lots of women, lots of minorities." The first night will feature students from the mostly Hispanic KIPP Academy, a Houston charter school that Bush frequently touts. Finally, there's the entertainment. Instead of the usual G.O.P. country-and-western fare, planners have suggested trying to land Ricky Martin or the Backstreet Boys. It sort of makes one long for the Old Kind of Republican...
...Ugly duckling, in time 2. Gallery with the John Singer Sargent Wing 3. Aikman QB'd here 4. Seaside lodging 5. Liberal arts course, for short 6. "Dubya," as a collegian 7. Gp. that didn't monitor election in 40-Across 8. The last of them fled in '79 9. He's been stripped of immunity in Santiago 10. Hard-liner Rafsanjani has withdrawn from its Parliament 11. Head of Haiti? 16. Affirmative action? 19. Sensation of the 1958 World Cup 21. New Rochelle, N.Y., college 22. Prosecutors have dismissed charges against her 24. It may be blown...
...sensitive issue in the Greater Bush Household, where J. Danforth Quayle is still remembered as a kind of slow-acting fatal disease. The family model for the perfect Veep has always been the elder Bush, who for eight years was Ronald Reagan's loyal, silent wingman. But Dubya can't pick his father as a running mate, so he is eyeing someone Dad nearly chose in 1988, before settling on Quayle. (One might say the elder Bush tapped the wrong Danforth.) Danforth of Missouri is a moderate Republican with ties to the party's conservative wing. After leaving office...
...weeks ago. According to the New York Times, Gates moved decisively and secured Reed's services as a key strategist for the ongoing Microsoft barrage of self-defense. Reed's responsibilities? To bend Bush's ear in favor of easing up on the software giant if and when Dubya takes office...
Money, or lack of it, can do a lot of things. It can launch a dot-com, win Dubya's primary and cause the demise of the Hasty Pudding. But the most recent question that has set academic tongues wagging across the nation is whether it can buy the success of an online university proposing to disseminate an Ivy League-caliber education to the masses, for free...