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...House members are still Democrats, as are two-thirds of the Governors and three-quarters of all other elected officials. Moreover, 43% of Americans are registered Democrats, including 5 million who enrolled just this year; only 30% are Republicans. "This kind of handwringing about the party is familiar and knee jerk," says Mondale Campaign Chairman James Johnson, refusing to see any general portents in Tuesday's terrible results. "It was a victory of personality far more than party." Clark Clifford, an astute party elder, is not fretting either. He recalls that four years after the Democratic rout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: Way Down but Not Quite Out, The Democrats Regroup | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...junior quarterback Brian White ought to return feeling a little better after a knee injury sidelined him last weekend during the Penn debacle, which the Cantabs lost...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends Today | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

...tackled the back for no gain when his knee or his foot when into my gut." Ford recalls. "Five of my teammates were behind me and fell on top of us. It hurt a lot, and as I stood up I felt dizzy and nauseous. I lined up for the next play but when the ball was snapped. I crumpled up like a ball to protect myself and left the game when the play was over...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Crimson field marshal | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

...gloomy statistics should debunk the argument that Reagan's victory and demographic sweep--excepting, of course, the Blacks and the Jews--represents a general trend towards the Republicans or, in a singularly knee-jerk fit of wishful thinking b8 the Democrats, a mere mandate for the rosy wrinkly cheeks and gee-whiz smile of the President...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Beyond the Pall | 11/14/1984 | See Source »

Uncle Harry pulls her close, pats her knee and offers to buy her a Michael Jackson T shirt if she will come across with "one of those kisses I like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Facing Up to Sex Abuse | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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