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...MAGAZINE HAS waited a long time for one of its own to inherit the Oval Office. And so it is keeping a special eye on its favorite-son Reagan. Signs of even the slightest deviation from hard-line conservatism have provoked strong reprimands from Human Events...
King has clearly staked out the right on fiscal and social issues. In a two-man race, Dukakis would inherit by default the left, a constituency he has not yet clearly earned. Riding on a crest of popularity, Dukakis has successfully ducked substantive discussion of the key issues in the race--taxes, education, housing, criminal reform. The major campaign change he says he intends to make over his ill-fated 1978 bid is that he will try harder to get elected--he has not said he would change any of his old stances if elected. O'Neill, on the other...
...liberte." Whether or not the baby has such determination at the moment, she will probably have it in four or five years. By then she may be an instrument of determination herself, her very name a beacon to other Palestinian children who are raised in this country to inherit their parents' dreams and enemies...
...product of a quality junior development program in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., Boyum gave Brad Desaulniers a run for his money in challenge matches for the number-one spot this fall and will inherit the number-one position when Desaulniers leaves school at the end of the semester. Though the Yardling is far from physically over-whelming, opponents will find few holes in his game and fewer in his head: he plays a smart game...
Should man follow the dodo and the passenger pigeon into extinction, who will inherit the earth? Faced with that gloomy question, most futurists and even some zoologists tend toward the whimsical: late-late-show killer ants, say, or playful monsters that put one in mind of Lewis Carroll's frumious Bandersnatch...