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...supposed to have some discipline and sobriety about it. If Gore and Bradley were trying out for a Jesuit high school debating team anywhere in America, neither would make the cut. They are not even up to that standard of seriousness, let alone to the standard of, oh, Lincoln and Douglas, or Nixon and Kennedy, or even Reagan and Mondale...
...stop working at Harvard until 1974, when he became executive director of the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Tufts University, where he organized local universities' efforts to install magnet schools and programs in the Boston school system following the 1974 court order to desegregate the schools...
...reverent volunteers, all of them broke, were trudging along behind the candidate on the cold highway outside Red Bud, Ill., far from the Iowa caucuses. "If we ever get there, we could win the thing easy," the campaign manager said. "He has very good name recognition. Way bigger than Lincoln...
...three patrons were wounded. According to a source close to Lopez, "Jennifer was leaving the club when the shots were fired. She hit the floor and then got up and exited as fast as possible." After Combs came out, the couple got into the rear seat of a 1999 Lincoln Navigator owned by his record company, which sped away past a police cruiser with flashing lights and through several red lights. When police stopped the car they reportedly found a 9-mm semiautomatic pistol on the floor of the front seat. They arrested Combs, his bodyguard, his driver and Lopez...
...that Ventura is taking a time-out, and it's also a '90s irony: today's political culture craves authenticity but bristles when it actually gets some. But ride with the Guv in his Lincoln Navigator, and you find that even the chastened Ventura is more candid than 99% of pols. On the Cuban trade embargo he says what self-styled truth tellers like Bill Bradley don't: "It's stupid. Fidel's outlasted eight Presidents. Is it an ego thing? Do we have to wait for him to die?" He's the rare non-Democratic Governor who gives Clinton...