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Selling sports stuff to people who don't need any more of it involves positioning your product as close as possible to the intersection of two powerful psychosocial forces. One is the Vector of Incompetence: if you can't hit a decent forehand or chip shot or jog half a mile without seeing spots, do you take yet another futile lesson or try once again to puff yourself into condition? No, you buy a new racquet, or set of irons, or a frightfully expensive pair of illusion-enriched running shoes...
...will have to make the difference. Two weekends ago, deputy White House communications chief David Dreyer dug up videotapes of George Bush literally running away from a controversial deficit-reduction deal in October 1990, when he dismissed the package with a glib invitation to "Read my hips" during a jog in Florida. Bush's diffidence at the time was an invitation for members of his own party to revolt, and infuriated Budget Director Richard Darman, who later called it the "biggest mistake of Bush's presidency." After watching the Bush tapes, Clinton's aides vowed to make sure that Clinton...
...sorry to say, more complicated than that. Part of it has to do with the influx of nearly 9 million immigrants into this country in the past decade -- folks for whom sweat means something different from working out to Jane Fonda's mellifluous commands. Another factor is poverty: a jog in some neighborhoods is more dangerous to your health than staying behind a barricaded door. Earlier this year the government reported that the health gap between affluent, well-educated people and poor and poorly educated people had widened greatly over the past three decades: by 1986, it said, Americans with...
...hearts of sports fans, it's spring time and that means one thing for senior Christine Carr: it's time to lace on the cleats and jog down to Soldiers Field...
During a morning jog with McCurdy last Friday, Clinton confirmed what others have said, that his emphasis on aiding students after college derives in part from his desire to assuage middle-class voters upset with his breaking his promise to lower their taxes. Fair enough, but more middle-class families would receive help if their children joined the program after high school, as a confidential transition memorandum pointed out. The President ought to reread that memo and change course...