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...seems to allow slurs, like "bubbas." He also seems to be one of those ineffectual men who take things too far when they are given a little power. In the movies, when an an ordinary person faces great, malign forces, that person is played by Gary Cooper or Harrison Ford. Jewell seems to be a pudgy version of Barney Fife. In this mismatch, he wouldn't appear to have a chance...
...battle between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford is now seen as a model of civility, with two fundamentally decent men running fundamentally positive campaigns: Carter promising "a government as good...as the people," Ford coming from behind to near victory with a campaign featuring the jingle I'm Feeling Good About America. During that race, however, debate panelist Robert Maynard asked the candidates how much responsibility they were prepared to accept for the "low tone" of the campaign...
...yearly collection of The Best American Short Stories, an anthology of short fiction published in magazines across the United States and Canada in the previous year. For each volume, one of the nation's most distinguished novelists is chosen to be the guest editor (recent past editors include Richard Ford, Louise Erdrich, and Jane Smiley). The editor is blindly presented with 120 stories, chosen by the series editor, Katrina Kenison. Blind presentation means that the authors names are concealed up until publication of the selection. This year's guest editor John Edgar Wideman (two time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award...
...HAROLD FORD JR. (D) District 9 BORN: May 11, 1970, Memphis EDUCATION: U of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1992; U of Michigan, J.D., 1996 FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Law clerk POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 1470 Monroe Avenue, Memphis...
...Junior" is bidding to take the seat left open by his father, who is retiring this year. But he wants to pick up with a difference in image: Ford Sr. was indicted in 1987 on charges of bank, mail and tax fraud, though he was later acquitted. Ford Jr. defends the earned-income tax credit, abortion rights, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental regulation and gun control, and aims to put a fresh face on his father's political legacy...