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...come in and be The Man. To which we always turn our eyes down modestly, and kick the dirt a little, and say "Aw, shucks, Coach" and get ready to dazzle the readers again. Which brings us to this week, in which we'd just like to remind our loyal readers to play hard, dance with the ones that brung ye, and remember to tip your bartender...
Here's Paul Begala, former Clinton White House counsel, in a new book, out next week, called "Is Our Children Learning? The Case Against George W. Bush: "You don't have what it takes to be president. Even your most loyal defenders say you're a few beans short of a full burrito...
...personal, especially since the 1988 presidential campaign, when Junior acted as the loyalty enforcer. The Bushes fed hot dogs and lemonade to the reporters at Kennebunkport, even took a special few out on the cigarette boat. But these gestures were always a quid pro quo. If you were not "loyal to all Bushes" after that, you fell off the list for interviews, horseshoes and movies in the family quarters. The next time you held out your hand, it might not be shaken. Junior, like his mom, blamed the media for his father's '92 loss...
...politics, 1996 might as well be the last century. The hallowed game plan--hold your base, then hook the swing voters--gets trickier with each election, as the loyal party bases shrink and the big clump of independents grows. But it is especially hard for Gore this year. Gore's base is spoiled and soft after eight years in power--in one poll he drew only 78% of core Democrats. Bush's is so hungry to win it put its differences aside long ago: Bush has the support of 95% of the G.O.P. base, and so has been able...
...noon, the Kursk had successfully completed a torpedo-firing run and was preparing for another. Lyachin, 45, one of Russia's most experienced submarine officers, radioed the task-force commander for permission to fire. The transmission was monitored by the American surveillance ship U.S.N.S. Loyal, lurking about 186 miles west-northwest of the Kursk, as was the commander's "permission granted." But instead of the sounds of torpedoes being blown from launch tubes, sonar operators aboard U.S. submarines working with the Loyal heard two explosions, one short and sharp, the second an enormous, thundering boom. A Norwegian seismic institute also...