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Ultimately it is Reagan's campaign style that has come back to haunt him. After choosing to emphasize image over issues in the 1984 and 1986 elections, the president lacks a policy mandate. Americans have got what they voted for; a president with a successful image and a less successful ability to provide solutions to the issues...

Author: By Seth Goldman, | Title: Presidency in Absentia | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

Last week a U.S. district court dismissed the suit. "There are only very limited ways to draw the figure of a cartoon ghost," said Judge Peter Leisure. But the ghost could come back to haunt another judge because Harvey may appeal the ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trademarks: Who Ya Gonna Call, Fatso? | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

President Derek C. Bok will never forget that evening, for it has come back to haunt him eight years later. It was a dark, spooky Halloween. Gay W. Seidman '78, president of The Harvard Crimson, was leading a gaggle of goulish editors to Bok's Elmwood St. residence. The group rang the door bell, said, "trick or treat," and eventually went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Republicans have found little in Dukakis' record with which to haunt him. They have attempted to tie the governor to the Westfield State College harrassment case, where the college's President Francis W. Pilecki was charged with sexual harassment of several male students...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: GOP Candidate Found: Campaign Still Needed | 9/30/1986 | See Source »

...Bergen Hunt and Fish Club was then the haunt of a smart and sharp young hoodlum named John Gotti. Over the next 15 years, while Giacalone moved from college to law school to a job at the Justice Department, Gotti was moving up through the ranks of the Mafia. Four years ago, their paths crossed more decisively. Giacalone had become an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, and Gotti was a feared capo in the Gambino family who ruthlessly ran his empire from the same red brick building on 101st Avenue. Giacalone had just successfully prosecuted four men for two armored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two From the Neighborhood | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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