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When Sasso returned, he inherited this snake pit. He brought in an acquaintance, David D'Alessandro of the John Hancock insurance company, who had never run a political ad shop. In mid-September D'Alessandro arranged the Shoot-Out at the Ritz-Carlton, a demeaning screening of potential scripts. In a cavernous baroque banquet room, ad-makers flipped through their storyboards to impress the new team. It was an amateurish tryout that produced more bitterness than ads. Among those produced was a semicoherent series ridiculing Bush's handlers. Although they are certain to form the core of Kennedy School seminars...
...remarks, "Television has replaced the political party." It controls agenda and voter turnout at the polls, two key traditional functions of the party. In the election of 1880, the political parties were so good at motivating voters that 80% of them voted, despite two weak candidates -- Garfield and Hancock -- and no strong issues...
...looking for a reason to sign that legislation." Bush implied that Dukakis intended to prevent Massachusetts students from reciting the pledge, which was clearly not the case. He then added, "It's very hard for me to imagine that the Founding Fathers -- Samuel Adams, John Adams and John Hancock -- would have objected to teachers leading students in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States...
...Durham, N.C. While 58 other schools already have jazz majors, the four-year institute will be the nation's first conservatory expressly dedicated to jazz. Named after the pianist-composer who died in 1982, it will serve 200 students chosen through competitions and interviews. Jazz Greats Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis have expressed interest in teaching there; Trumpeter Clark Terry will chair the academic council...
...value prizes partly because they make up for the lost sleep and extra effort it takes to stay at the cutting edge of journalism, but also as evidence of the unique quality we put between our covers. The Hancock Award is one of 46 prizes TIME has won this year. The July 27, 1987, cover story, "The Gorbachev Era," earned the Overseas Press Club's Hallie and Whit Burnett Award as the best general magazine story on foreign affairs. "Air Travel -- How Safe Is It?" (Jan. 12, 1987) picked up an Award of Excellence from the Aviation-Space Writers Association...