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Rice, 29, is the Miami model and aspiring actress who was unwittingly introduced to the American public by former Democratic Presidential Candidate Gary Hart. A cruise with Hart on the yacht Monkey Business carried her to the covers of the celebrity magazines and into an interview by Barbara Walters on ABC's 20/20. She is now served by agents and career advisers, and has broken into big-time modeling for a new line of sportswear called No Excuses. "I make no excuses," says her script. "I only wear them...
First Gary Hart and then Joseph Biden played themselves out of the presidential lineup because of foolish errors. Last week it was Michael Dukakis who stumbled badly. The Massachusetts Governor, whose image of rock- solid integrity has been a major selling point, had to accept the resignations of his two top aides for their part in bushwhacking the Biden candidacy. Worse, Dukakis first denied his campaign's part in undermining Biden, then revealed his aides' role, then hesitated before letting them go. His handling of the crisis made him look ill-informed and indecisive...
Commenting on the recent problems within the now-defunct Hart and Biden campaigns, the Missouri Democrat said "I think we ought to move on and talk about the issues in this campaign...
Dukakis campaign spokeswoman Amy DeHart said Tully, who formerly had served as a campaign aide to Gary Hart before Hart's withdrawal from the race, helped plan much of the debate strategy before his resignation. "He was very integral in the pre-debate strategy and we don't wait for the last minute on something like that," DeHart said...
What the departure of Biden does is deepen the air of frustration hanging over the splintered Democratic race. Since the nomination campaign began with high hopes, all the news has been negative for the party: Hart's and Biden's crackups, the refusal of such powers as Mario Cuomo and Sam Nunn to enter, the persistence of the demeaning seven-dwarfs metaphor. (Unless Pat Schroeder officially enters, that will have to be changed to the six -- what? Survivors?) About the only consolation is that Biden did not come close to threatening Hart's world speed record for political self-immolation...