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...before leaving public life, to erase his public image as a growling hatchet man and put on display for the history books the kind of senatorial courtesy he has been known for in his 35 years on Capitol Hill. Asked by Koppel whether he'd rather "lose as a gentleman or win rough," Dole replied, "Well, I'd like to win, but there are certain limits. I can't see myself getting into the mud here in the last three weeks...Whatever happens, I want to be at peace with myself when it's over." But late Friday campaign...
...Clinton's character or if he takes a longer view and tries to achieve what he can without a win," says TIME's Tamala Edwards. "He's stuck between the two. Does he want to go out screaming his way into history or be remembered for running a gentleman's campaign?" Perhaps more importantly for the GOP is the question of whether Dole will use the next two weeks to help the party retain the hold on the House it won in 1994. The Dole campaign's recent shift in focus to California, all but conceding a number of smaller...
When Kennedy arrived by plane, David Sayre brought him into the airport office, where the two women waited. Wise says, "TV doesn't do him justice." He was wearing jeans and sneakers and a baseball cap turned backward. "He was as nice a gentleman as you would want to meet," said Wise. (Mary Jo Ferguson paid for the license...
...sharp one muggy Monday. After passing through security, I was told to join the other "prospective jurors" in the "Juror Assembly Room"--it was a barn, and we were crammed in like so many cattle. The lady next to me was reading "Lust in the Desert" and the gentleman on my other side, well, he had the right idea--he was out cold...
...went to a student concert and saw B.B. King perform. Aside from being moved and awed by the music, I was bewildered to find only a handful of African Americans in the audience. When I asked an older gentleman why more in his community didn't attend, he put his hand on my shoulder and said solemnly, "Son, my people have been livin' the blues for 200 years; most see no sense spending their time listening to it." I agree with Isaac Tigrett's comment that it is a tragedy "the black community abandoned the blues and the audience became...