Word: ideas
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...things are as painful to watch as a presidential candidate who won't take the medicine he needs and can't resist the poison he doesn't. For a moment last week, Bob Dole seized upon a good idea just when he needed it, a way to end the tobacco war with Katie Couric and perhaps win some points with soccer moms who worry about crime when they vote. Best of all, it was something he had wanted to do for months: end his opposition to Congress's 1994 ban on 19 types of so-called assault weapons. As majority...
...needs of Gingrich and Barbour no longer match those of the nominee. And though he faced what should have been a simple choice between listening to his gut or listening to a Speaker with an approval rating in the low 30s, Dole did the latter. He deleted his own idea...
...idea behind the book also spawned the Veritas Forum of 1994, which brought many of the writers together in person to discuss some of the issues of the anthology...
...since it casts him as the activist President working hard for middle-class folks. Take the speech last month when he asked television networks for three hours of educational programming each week. Didn't cost him a dime to get up before a crowd and propose it, but the idea won him points with parents, McAllister says. "Who can disagree with it?" says McAllister. "He's figured out the value of the bully pulpit. Given Clinton's lead in the polls, people seem to be responding well to his programs, especially since they don't have to bear the burden...
When it was announced that Disney planned a singing, dancing Hunchback of Notre Dame [CINEMA, June 24], it seemed like an absurd idea. Having seen the movie, I can only assume the next project will be something along the lines of Anne Frank, the Musical. PHILIP J. SCHACCA West Hempstead, New York