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...waiting too long,'' says Jim Cicconi, a former Bush-Quayle adviser. ``Money gets committed, operatives get committed and local politicians get committed.'' The need for speed is the result of a new campaign schedule that telescopes 23 primaries into the 35 days between New Hampshire's race on Feb. 20 of next year and California's on March 26. To run in the compressed window, big bucks are vital. Serious contestants will need about $25 million by the end of this year to buy ads and pay staff...
Some officials on both sides said they were encouraged by the procedural push. This week Israel and the Palestinians are to reopen their talks in Cairo, while Arafat and Rabin are to meet at a border crossing on the Gaza Strip. Then on Feb. 12, the summit group's foreign ministers will convene in Washington to move ahead on economic and security measures...
...announced that on Feb. 26 it will impose punitive tariffs of 100% on a wide range of Chinese imports valued at about $1 billion. The move came as retaliation for what the Clinton Administration regards as Beijing's inadequate efforts to curb widespread piracy of American computer software, music and films. The new tariffs are intended to equal the estimated revenue lost through theft of U.S. copyrights and patents in China. Among the hardest- hit Chinese exports are plastics, picture frames, cellular phones, answering machines, sporting goods and some bicycles. Beijing responded with 100% tariffs on compact discs, cigarettes, alcoholic...
Mark Goodin, a Republican strategist, commenting on Dan Quayle's decision not to run for president in 1996, as quoted in the New York Times on Feb. 10, 1995. We can see Mr. Quayle's predicament; the two jobs are so very similar...
Former Crimson editor Michael E. Kinsley '72 brought the better-than thou tradition to the New Yorker. In a Comment on "The Intellectual Free Lunch," (Feb. 6, 1995) Kinsley wrote: "It is contemptuous, not respectful, to excuse 'the people' from all demands of intellectual rigor or honesty on the ground that their judgments are wise by definition...