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...Gettysburg Address ender 31. Shakespeare prince 32. Team that baseball owners would like to disband 34. Kind of process 35. Opportunity for a hit 37. Magnum and others 38. Deep Blue's maker 39. Reddish-brown gemstone 40. He's signed on with the ad agency that helped elect Ventura 42. Prefix meaning personal 44. Bush got heckled by death-penalty opponents at its convention 48. Dow Jones fig. 50. City that's offering White Bikes 53. Dickensian epithet 54. The National Geographic Society will tailor these to individual needs 55. Subject of a conference in Durban, South Africa...
Students of the period will remember Sears as one of those young Republicans, sleek as seals, who worked around Nixon and the Committee to Re-elect. Sears lost out in some White House infighting before Watergate began, but he remained closely tied to the most important figures in the White House and the party. Later he ran Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign. Today, he is a lawyer in private practice, and he is apparently incensed by Garment's theory that he is Deep Throat. "I may well sue," he angrily told Francis X. Clines of the New York Times...
...Gore's response suggests that the woman's right to choose is global: She can elect to save her unborn child, or she can decide , in effect, to abort it by being executed herself. It's a grisly choice. Unfortunately for Gore (not to mention the pro-choice movement in general), his response set legislative wheels in motion. The tie-in was obvious: Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who sponsored a bill banning the execution of pregnant inmates, took to the House floor to lobby for her position, informing colleagues that unborn children had committed no crime...
Bush is hoping the personal really is the political. He has unveiled some substantive policy proposals, but his advisers know that voters won't elect him on the basis of his plan to partly privatize Social Security or his promise to reform Section 8 housing. Bush faces the apathy born of prosperity. "I just can't remember a time when the public's been so tuned out of a presidential campaign," says Ronald Reagan's famous imagemaker, Michael Deaver. "People are going to make their decision based on the impression a candidate makes more than anything else." Like John Kennedy...
...seats, and even John McCain, Bush's nemesis in the primaries, marvels at the seductive charisma he encountered in their first postprimary meeting. Jim Ferguson, one of Bush's admen, is convinced: "If people get a glimpse of what they would see if they actually met him, they will elect him." To Mark McKinnon, Bush's top media adviser, the Bush personality is magic, "like lightning in a bottle...