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Tsongas delivered that same message on Wednesday night, just before New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's speech nominating Bill Clinton for the office Tsongas once sought...
...case, political skulduggery can be difficult to prove. For example, a Republican source bragged that the Bush campaign and RNC have sought information on Clinton's alleged extramarital affairs and stalled G.O.P. approval of the New York state budget, thus helping keep Governor Mario Cuomo from challenging Bush, but have insulated themselves by having the dirty work performed by trusted G.O.P. political consultants. Bush campaign chairman Robert Teeter and five of his colleagues independently denied the allegations...
...later, The Death of Artemio Cruz, a Faulknerian tour de force narrated by a man during the final hours of his life, propelled Fuentes into the front ranks of "el Boom," the globally acclaimed wave of Latin American authors that included Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa...
...tempers cool and to aid Clinton's quest for white middle-class votes, those Democrats truly interested in recapturing the White House have quite simply shut up. But not Mario. The New York Governor, who only three weeks ago equated Clinton with Bush as he chided both candidates for being "unspecific" (despite the fact that the Democrats have never had a nominee so willing to enunciate programmatic solutions), last Wednesday sought to keep the flap alive by suggesting a Sister Souljah summit at which Jackson, Clinton and Souljah would "reconcile the situation" for "the sake of the country." Someone...
Although it clearly has its merits, pop patriotism does run the risk of trivializing the electoral process. What, for example, would have been the effect if Comedy Central had provided commentary when Mario Cuomo made his eloquent "family of America" speech at the 1984 Democratic Convention? Can it really be considered progress if youths vote for a candidate solely because Michael Bolton says they should? People need reasons beyond that, argues Curtis Gans, who heads the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. "If we used that star quality to help kids figure out something they'd like...