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...additional $386 million into the race. The largest single ad buy of the campaign comes from conservative Progress for America. It shows Bush comforting 16-year-old Ashley Faulkner, whose mother died on 9/11. As it happens, the spot was made by Larry McCarthy, who produced the infamous Willie Horton ad that helped the first President Bush bury Michael Dukakis under charges that he was soft on crime. If that is the iconic attack ad, this is the ultimate embrace--to remind voters of the protectiveness they cherished in the President after Sept. 11. The ad has been ready since...
...doing well in the polls. That fall, however, pro-Bush forces deftly used wedge issues--particularly crime and the specter of encroaching liberalism--to cleave white working-class voters from the Democratic Party. The nastiest and most effective '88 political ad featured the hardened visage of convict William Horton, a murderer who had fled Massachusetts during a prison furlough and then stabbed a man and raped his fiancé. Republicans said Dukakis had turned his state's prison gates into "a revolving door." Dukakis pointed out that he had actually ended the furlough program, but his protest was late and languid...
...April 1955, over two years after Sperry’s retirement, Pusey announced the selection of Douglas Horton, Minister of the General Council of Congregational Churches, as the new dean. With a background in a movement committed to promoting unity among different Christian denominations, Horton fit in with Pusey’s vision for a Divinity School faculty that represented a greater diversity of religious traditions...
...Pentagon. Other Pentagon officials said Sanchez, at any rate, had never given anyone explicit permission to use such methods. And Rumsfeld told Senators that Pentagon lawyers had checked the rules thoroughly before judging Sanchez's list to be "consistent" with the Geneva Conventions. But according to Scott Horton of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, several senior military lawyers went to him last May and October with concerns that Pentagon civilian attorneys were easing the rules of interrogation to endanger prisoner rights. Finally, an exasperated Senator asked Wolfowitz how he would judge it if foreigners...
...accounts, their collaboration on the 1966 network cartoon "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" was amiably collaborative. Smartly elaborated from the book by Geisel, beautifully directed by Jones and designed by Maurice Noble, the 25-min. film delighted audiences and became a holiday standard. "The Grinch" and the ineffable "Horton Hears a Who," which the same team produced four years later, It had an educational function as well: it taught kids that there was a higher form of animation than the cheap, stilted stuff they'd been exposed to on the many Hanna-Barbera series. Here was character created through line...