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...retired associate director of the Boston Pops. Her home was a lively one, with musicians and artists as frequent guests. At an early age she took up modern dance, and later became a teacher of it. Her nickname comes from her mother's friend, the vivacious actress Kitty Carlisle Hart...
Both Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado and Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware brought top Senate experience, from foreign policy to justice. Then Hart slept his way into the mass media and out of the race. Biden barely made it into the media, until he plagiarized enough to be kicked out of the race...
Steitz, 31, signed on with Jackson after leaving Gary Hart's sinking campaign, which he served as deputy issues director. He has helped persuade Jackson to reduce his planned 25% cut in defense spending to a more reasonable 10% and brought the candidate's revenue-raising notions more in line with congressional opinion. His principal asset is that he has an excellent rapport with Jackson. "If you want Jesse to do something," says an Eastern adviser, "it's worth telling Steitz to tell Jackson...
...Biden, the Delaware senator who was forced to withdraw from the presidential race this year after being caught borrowing speeches, is already looking ahead to the 1992 race. Gary Hart can't be far behind...
...reason Jackson has been able to survive scrutiny--a thought columnists seem loathe to acknowledge--is that he, unlike virtually any other Democrat now running, has a loyal and well-defined constituency. Historian Alan Brinkley noted in The New York Times at the time of the Hart scandal that his campaign was mortally wounded by the Donna Rice affair precisely because he lacked a constituency. Hart was trading on his front-runner status and nothing more. The same could be said of Joe Biden. For a candidate without a natural constituency, any damaging revelation can bring a campaign...