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Senate majority leader Bob Dole, the current Republican front runner, made it official and formally declared he is a candidate for President. He was followed into the ring by one of the G.O.P.'s darker horses: California Congressman Bob Dornan, an ultra-conservative firebrand. Dornan becomes the seventh Republican to enter the race...
Jessica Lange is a firebrand beside Neeson's drooping bulk, even if she is saddled with the stiff-upper-lip female role. And Brian McCardie, who plays the eager young Alasdair MacGregor, is an adorable hyperbole. Of course...
...Dornan (R-Calif.), the conservative firebrand who launched a bid for the GOP presidential nomination Thursday , isn't going to let his opposition to affirmative action get in the way of quotas. In a CNN interview today, Dornan promised to name his running mate by Christmas and that "that man or woman of course will be conservative, but will most probably be of Jewish heritage or African-American heritage." Tired of senators' frequent appearances on national tickets, the congressman also pledged to select most of his Cabinet secretaries from the House of Representatives if he wins...
...owes much of its energy to the lingering euphoria of Aristide's return. When U.S. soldiers chaperoned the President home seven weeks ago, the big question was whether he was up to the job. By most accounts, Haitian and American, Aristide appears a transformed man. Gone is the leftist firebrand who coyly refused to discipline the mob that brought him to power. Gone too is the self-righteous, mercurial contrarian of Washington exile. In their place is a man whom experience has imbued with wisdom, a newfound respect for dialogue and a deft skill for the politics of pragmatism...
...utmost confidence, and though the wrong notes sometimes fall thick and fast, there is never any question of who is in command -- or what the point of the performance really is. Richter has never been a virtuoso on the order of Vladimir Horowitz or Lazar Berman, a later Soviet firebrand with a crackling technique and not much else. Instead, he is a musician first and a pianist second. Hearing him play, one has the sense that if he could, he would communicate his message by telepathy, directly to the listener's mind and heart...