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Fallows also points to concerns that grew out of his writing for The Washington Monthly, a small public affairs oriented journal, as a source of his sympathy for Carter. Fallows says Carter shares his interest in "the way government structurally gets screwed up and the way that conventional ideologies don't take care of a lot of the ways that government goes wrong." He offers the civil service unions--once a "grand hero of the left" but now an "impediment to much of what you want to do"--as one reason why he supports the ex-Georgia governor...
...sparks of life grew into flame during the third quarter, though, and Dartmouth's running attack, featuring an injured but effective Curt Oberg and a speedy halfback named Sam Coffey, began to move the ball...
Buckley, 53, grew up a rich man's woodsy son who preferred bird watching to baseball. As a youngster he considered ornithology as a career and as a Yale undergraduate he kept a boa constrictor for company. But after Yale Law School he ended up a vice president of his family's oil-exploration business, where he indulged his love of travel (visiting both polar regions) and his interest in environmental problems...
Cries Sasser, a lawyer and former state Democratic chairman who grew up on a Tennessee farm, "How can a millionaire know the plight of the poor, the uneducated, the jobless, the sick?" His adroit use of sarcasm against the low-keyed Brock has been withering. When the Republican tried to link Sasser to minor scandals in the Democratic state administration, Sasser smiled: "I didn't know William E. Brock the Third was running for Governor." At a joint appearance, Brock declared he intended to run on his record. Quipped Sasser: "That's the best news...
Watkins first furnishes some rather elementary biographical details. Munch (Geir Westby) was born in Oslo in 1863, second of five children in a family much battered by medical tragedy. Denounced and vilified at the outset of his career. Munch was accepted, even extolled, as he grew older. Watkins also tries to tunnel into Munch's creative spirit, to watch him work and trace his themes of violent mortality and sexual betrayal to their psychic roots...