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...take notes, declare a tablecloth crisis or order up a set of gold-rimmed china. She may carefully find a way to chart a new course. But however circumspect, she will make her own mistakes. And if history is any guide, for reasons as old as Adam and Eve, some Americans will punish her for them out of proportion to their significance...
...sound bites and imagemakers, the paid political program has acquired an earnest but dreary air. The form has survived primarily as a weapon for fringe candidates like Lyndon LaRouche and as an election-eve ritual for major-party candidates, who by then are usually preaching to the converted. Perot, however, made half-hour political ads the centerpiece of his campaign -- with astonishing success. His first program, a lecture on the economy that aired in early October, drew a higher rating than the baseball play-off game it preceded. Though ratings dropped for subsequent broadcasts, Perot's month-long mini-series...
...results come on the eve of the largestcapital campaign in the history of any university,an effort that will require Harvard graduates tocough up substantial sums of money if theUniversity is to reach its estimated target of $2billion...
...should one say lust? Anyway, what happens to them is careless and heedless. The actors bring a terrifying, clarifying force to their representation of an unsentimental sexual education, more powerful than any the movies have lately given us. There is something of Adam and Eve in their innocence. Except that as flashbacks within the flashback unfold, we realize that this Adam is already tainted by something like original sin, visited on him by his family's history (and symbolized by the hulking, tragic presence of his mentally deficient older brother), and that this Eve's temptation is, if anything, more...
...eve of the election, however, he changed his story. Appearing on CBS's 60 Minutes, Perot said he quit the race because he feared Bush operatives planned to smear his daughter Carolyn by publicizing a fraudulent photograph of her. While he did not describe it, others said Perot believed the photo depicted a lesbian act. He also suspected a plot to disrupt somehow Carolyn's wedding ceremony in August. Nor was that all. Even after he withdrew, he said he was told of plans to tap his office phones, perhaps with a view toward sabotaging his business dealings...