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...moments, to transcend the terms of the conventional politics. Dukakis learned what happens to a Democratic nominee who runs with a Liberal label. When he told the 1988 convention that the election would be about "competence," not "ideology," Republicans pounced. Clearly, Clinton, too, thought that his liberalism was a handicap and hence he tried to change the outcome by changing his approach. He talked about the breakdown of family and urged people to begin by changing "from inside out," changes that reach "the values, the spirit, the soul." In reality, however, Mr. Clinton was a charter New Democrat...
...different tracks. He has passed such legends as Kelso (11) and Spectacular Bid (12), and is bearing down on Man o' War (14), Buckpasser (15) and, the greatest of all, Citation (16). A stone bruise to one of his hooves prevented Cigar from racing in the Santa Anita Handicap last month, so win No. 14 will have to wait until March 27, when Cigar runs in the $4 million Dubai World...
Then came victories in the Donn Handicap and the Gulfstream Park Handicap. At the Oaklawn Handicap in Arkansas last April, Cigar was accidentally whipped in the face by the jockey aboard another horse; most horses would have backed up after such a blow, but Cigar just got mad and blew away a stellar field. During the Hollywood Gold Cup in California last July, Cigar was hit in the head by a huge clod of dirt, and Bailey needed all his strength to hold back the horse before letting him go on to an easy victory. Cigar's folk-hero status...
...network business, of course, is a cyclical one, and CBS, like every other network, has bounced back from bad times before. Yet in the new, crowded TV landscape, with network audience shares continuing to drop (and CBS facing the extra handicap of a depleted affiliate lineup), the question is whether this time a network has sunk so deep it can't rise to the surface again. "I'm not so sure the cyclical nature of the network business will operate the same way again and again and again for CBS," says Alan Bell, president of Freedom Broadcasting, which owns three...
...group of about 200 Republicans, the only hint of Dole's handicap comes when he advocates returning power to the states. That's what the 10th Amendment commands, he says as he yanks a copy from his shirt pocket. "You don't make the mistake of misstating the Constitution," he explains, reading the 28 words he knows by heart. The move to the pocket is practiced but still a chore, and the audience notices. "I can't get stuff out of my pants pockets," Dole says later. "That's why I keep it in my shirt," along with a spare...