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...guru's wisdom grips the hall. Within hours, new placards appear: AL GORE FOR VEEP; DICK GEPHARDT KNOWS HOW TO BE NO. 2; BILL CLINTON IS CUTER THAN DAN QUAYLE. Corporate jets supplied by Strauss's legal clients fan out to fetch the prospects. The Democratic delegates rejoice; they have seen the future, and it is bipartisan...
Chaos reigns. Then Bob Strauss, the party's guru in chief, comes onto the podium. For President, he intones in a syrupy drawl, we must nominate a great American and my fellow Texan -- George Bush. During the stunned silence that follows, Strauss adds a cunning hook: For Vice President, we should select one of our young Democratic chargers, someone whose depth and experience compare favorably with Quayle's lack of same. American voters like to diffuse authority and have scant respect for Quayle. The Democratic ticket will...
Just two weeks ago, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf dropped a bombshell when he questioned Bush's decision to keep the war out of Baghdad. Democrats have much to gain from jumping on the "Save the Kurds" bandwagon. Bush's reputation as a foreign policy guru should last about as long as the Kurds did against Saddam's helicopter gunships...
...Republic's special issue dealing with race on campus, Richard Blow, a doctoral candidate in the History of American civilization at Harvard, joins the whining chorus of dissent against Harvard's allegedly illegitimate "PC" course offerings. Here, he lets loose on a course offered by Shakespeare-guru Marjorie Garber...
...declining intellectual standards and rising liberalism at Dartmouth, the Review staked out a territory far to the right of most conservatives, both in rhetoric and ideology. They personally vilified professors that did not live up to their standards (while choosing to ignore the intellectual slovenliness of their faculty guru, the pompous Jeffrey Hart) and constantly attacked women, Blacks and gays...