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Last night was a player's moment. It was a time for remembrance as both the seniors and underclassmen were able to bid a fond farewell to the 1995 season...
...each downturn in his fortunes, Dole promised that "from now on, you'll see the real Bob Dole." In retrospect it seems that the real Bob Dole emerged only once: when he resigned from the Senate. It was a moment when he could have tacked many ways. He was fond of saying that "in a record of more than 12,000 votes, you can make a case for just about anything." So the accomplishments he chose to highlight in that tearful moment were instructive. Dole spoke movingly of his role in creating and expanding the food-stamp and school-lunch...
...thousands of journalists in Chicago this week to witness the renomination of Bill Clinton will choose that particular metaphor, or anything like it, to describe this year's incumbent President. Nor will anyone try to make the case--with a straight face--that Americans in general are particularly "fond" of their leader. Clinton faces a sullen press corps, a larger public that tolerates him at best, and a sizable opposition that despises him with extraordinary passion. Meanwhile, he lacks even a medium-size cadre of genuine enthusiasts. He doesn't have a single reliable journalistic hagiographer, though Reagan...
...father asking to get her ears pierced, with boxes drawn for his yes or no answer--to which he added a box marked "maybe." When pressed for something new, she comes up with a story about her father bringing home a cat from Kansas that she had grown fond of during a vacation...
That would be all right with Sam, a wry and doleful man with a taste for irony. He's tired of swallowing invidious comparisons between his performance in office and his dad's--especially since he was never that fond of the old man. Besides, he has new business to attend to--the recovery of the long lost love of his adolescence, Pilar, whom the beautiful Elizabeth Pena invests with the most touching vulnerability...