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...Buchanan keeps on torturing the Dole team, it has itself to blame. Reed and Pat's sister Bay Buchanan were in near cahoots for months trying to force Phil Gramm out of the race. In an astonishing string of secret deals, Reed released dozens of pro-Dole votes in the Alaska caucuses to ensure that Buchanan beat Forbes there; he gave his O.K. when top Louisiana Republicans asked about backing Buchanan in the caucus fight with Gramm; and he handed over thousands of names and addresses to Buchanan in Louisiana (and 12,000 names in Iowa) to help him strike...
...whom her brother calls "General MacArthur," is not shy about taking credit for battlefield victories. "I had a conservative--Gramm--in the race I had to take out first," she says, making the same karate-chop gestures as her brother. "Then I had to strip Forbes of any pro-life and Perot voters...
...year's primaries. The conventional wisdom in Washington was that the brevity of this year's primary season would favor candidates who could raise money in advance. But Buchanan's not doing it with money. He has spent far less money than Dole and Forbes, and even Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) (remember Gramm?), who was one of the first casualties of the season despite his war chest...
...PEOPLE TEND TO PICK straightforward names for their pets, as with Gus, the slobbery Labrador who has been barking at former presidential candidate Phil Gramm for staying too long on the campaign trail. Lamar Alexander, though, is a cat person, and when his family acquired two new kittens last year, he dubbed them Kato and Ito, a hopeful play on the potential of fame. For the past year, as Alexander struggled to win the attention of Republican-primary voters, he would flash his chin-up smile and explain that he was "encouraged by the experience of Kato Kaelin that...
...EXPECTED, THE END OF civilization as we know it was announced on the back pages. On Feb. 10, 1996, in Philadelphia, while America was distracted by the rise of Pat Buchanan, the fall of Phil Gramm and other trifles, something large happened. German philosophers call such large events world-historical. This was larger. It was species-defining. The New York Times carried it on page...