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Gore was careful not to mention the vice presidency; that would be seen as pandering. The promise of consultation on jobs was implicit. There was no need to dwell on it. What Gore discussed instead was their shared Southern heritage and what it had taught him about race, poverty and man's capacity to change. There was a passion in Gore's voice that a Northerner like Dukakis could not have equaled...
Historians must, of course, dwell on the past, but this should not prevent the Harvard History Department from also looking to the future of the discipline, which certainly lies at least in part in the study of gender. Sonya Michel Head Tutor and Lecturer on Women's Studies
...well. Bob Strauss is not one to dwell on his failures. As a consummate inside political trader, perhaps the last of the breed, he never lacks new challenges. His predecessors, all the great political bosses and power brokers of the past -- Daley, Meany, Rayburn, Johnson -- are gone now, their reputations eroded by the winds of calamity and reform. Yet if today's prefab candidates and queasy partisanship make some voters long for the old smoke- filled rooms, they can take heart: the legacy of the backstage impresarios lives on in Strauss...
...Reagan era, Shawn has written plays like Aunt Dan and Lemon, which dwell on questions of politics and people like Henry Kissinger. He has been true to his word. And I couldn't help thinking two thoughts. First, was he right? Is it so ethically suspect to be an American? And second, what does it mean that my values were being torn from the ground by a man who had only recently been the defender of a New Yorker's, if not an American's way of life...
...Friday, however, Bush seemed eager to avoid the impression he was dwelling on the matter. "I don't want to go into it," he told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith as they flew across Iowa. "I don't want to dwell on it. I don't want to discuss it. I've said it was an event, a powerful event, and you've seen the reactions from around the country. But there's no benefit for me to dwell on it. I was amazed at the response everywhere we went this week -- Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa -- but there's no point...