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Serious questions, however, are no guarantee of serious answers. And even an unprecedented full-hour format does not ensure that candidates will deal with the issues, and not launch into tired campaign rhetoric. Kalb concedes that Sen. Al Gore Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.), for one, used the show more to present his image than to discuss policy. "Each one of them came up here to look the best he could, to sound the best he could," says Kalb. "A politician running for the presidency who did not take advantage of an hour of free time would be a fool...
...should poll well in this week's South Dakota primary and Minnesota caucuses if his Midwestern "one of us" theme plays as well as it did in Iowa. But last week Bush halted his efforts in the South Dakota contest, making any Dole victory there somewhat hollow. The caucus format in Minnesota favors the highly motivated, so the Robertson forces may make a strong showing there...
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Today's paper appears in a slightly different format because of a production problem...
...next night, Rather departed from the customary Evening News format to offer a personal word. Along with a kind of primer on journalism -- "Trying to ask honest questions and trying to be persistent about answers is part of a reporter's job" -- he served up a tepid mea culpa on having cut Bush off at the end: "Ending live television interviews under time pressures sometimes isn't done as gracefully as we hope or intend, and last night was one of those times...