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...take a hint. I won't try to put a positive spin on the next loss...
...BEIGE STUCCO HOUSE IN MIAMI'S western suburbs looks too tidy and typical to hint at what transpires inside. But the noises give it away: chanting, bleating, squawking, cooing. At the back of the house, in a white-tiled, surgically clean room, sits an old woman in a white dress. She will remain there for an entire week, eating and resting and praying. The remainder of her initiation into the priesthood of Santeria -- literally, "saint worship" -- will take an entire year, during which she must wear only white, remain celibate and eat only prescribed foods...
...least those subjects were raised. What comes through from the 1988 debates is the stunning irrelevancy of most of the exchanges. Never mentioned was the fast-escalating savings-and-loan crisis. Not a word was devoted to the economic challenge from Japan. There was never more than a hint, even from Dukakis, that paper prosperity might soon give way to remorseless recession...
Never has there been a politician so candid about his own mendacity as Earl Long, the fabled drinking, carousing and hog-hunting 1950s Governor of Louisiana (hint: Paul Newman played him in Blaze). After one election, Long went back on a campaign promise in a big way. When a delegation of betrayed supporters showed up in Baton Rouge to protest, the Governor refused to see them. "What will I tell them?" asked a desperate aide. Long's immortal response: "Tell them I lied...
Next month, the committee--made up of house masters, administrators and student representatives--plans to review non-ordered choice. And several house masters hint that the experiment will remain in place for at least one more year...