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This week, as if replaying a Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis road movie, Bush and Baker return to the scene of their earliest defeats and triumphs: Houston, site of the Republican National Convention, where the two old friends will launch their last campaign together. But they will have little time for nostalgia. Arrayed against them are obstacles greater than any they have faced in their three decades as a team. The economy continues to sputter, with unemployment stuck near 10% in the major industrial states and consumer confidence in a funk. The President trails Democrat Bill Clinton by 25 points...
This year, the cable music network has awell-established nightly news show, and isequipped to launch a full-scale conventionoperation, Corrdina says. MTV puts together apackage every night, highlighting conventionevents and explaining the basics of the politicalprocess--what's a delegate, what's a caucus,what's a primary...
This is not typical ape behavior. In similar situations, the bonobo's cousin, the common chimpanzee, might engage in greetings and dominance interactions with far less libido in evidence. Why then do the bonobos launch into extended orgies of polymorphous perversity...
...launch deals like the one with Covent Garden, Gergiev has very little help. Surrounded by old-school functionaries, he must train a staff that can do business with the West. He seems to proceed on instinct, with more than a little of the old Diaghilev in him. Often he will end a long evening on the podium with a couple of hours of nuts-and-bolts negotiating...
Democrats now are riding high in the wake ofpost-convention euphoria. But the comingmonths--and the full-force launch of the Bushcampaign--will provide a test for thenewly-annointed nominee...