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On the stump those last days, Bob Dole's campaign was more local than national--the taped Sousa marches, the town bigwig at the mike vamping in front of an audience in elephant hats. Then Dole would come out from behind the stage, parting the polyester-blue curtain, and enact...
Political Initiation: Age 5, stumped in a skirt decorated with an elephant patch reading I'M FOR MY DADDY--ARE YOU?
What he asked them to do was stand there and think. And that is a lot to ask of a delegate surrounded by guys in elephant hats. But the most interesting part of the speech's bravery was its high moral seriousness; it attempted to address what really ails America...
The fledgling direct-broadcast satellite (DBS) industry, which delivers hundreds of channels and digital pictures from space, used to be a mosquito on the back of the elephant cable-TV business. Now it's starting to draw blood. In what could be the next long distance-style price war, upstart...
Each delegate gets his or her own "goody bag," assembled by the host committee. The bags include a number of special convention-edition products, ranging from macaroni and cheese with elephant- and star-shaped macaroni from Philip Morris to Hefty storage bags from Tenneco to a "roll back the beer...