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Faculty members on both sides of the political fence are suspicious of the new system. Many long-time Harvard professors fear the new way of computing faculty allotments will result in excessive growth in "faddish" areas, Bossert says. Some junior faculty, on the other hand, say the change is meaningless and assume that Harvard traditions are not so easily eradicated...
State Democratic Party officials and the Dukakis-Bentsen campaign deny any erosion of support for Dukakis here, claiming the recent polls are meaningless, and that Dukakis will win Massachusetts by an overwhelming margin in November...
During his convention acceptance speech, Dukakis proclaimed that "this election is not about ideology, it's about competence. And it's not about meaningless labels. It's about American values." Wrong. Labels have a great deal of significance in American politics. A candidate who refuses to define himself allows his opponent to make those definitions. Vice President George Bush's strategists realize that and they've kept Dukakis on the ropes since August because...
Since so much that Bush and Dukakis do and say is prepackaged and programmed, the press naturally emphasizes the rare unscripted moments, whatever their lasting significance. There was a brief and meaningless flap after an overexuberant Bush bizarrely ad-libbed to the American Legion convention that Sept. 7 (and not Dec. 7) was the 47th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. The news last Tuesday night featured both candidates fending off hecklers: militant right-to-lifers who shouted Dukakis down in suburban Chicago and outspoken hardhats who jeered Bush in Portland, Ore. There was little evidence that either group was representative...
...fact, at least two of Bush's top advisers predict -- strictly off the record and perhaps in a sly effort to lower expectations -- that he will. But in the past two months, Dukakis' once commanding lead in the California polls has disappeared, shrinking from 16 points to a statistically meaningless 1 point. One reason: several of the social issues Bush has been hammering on (opposition to new taxes and gun control, approval of the death penalty) have already been endorsed overwhelmingly by California voters in recent ballot initiatives. Republicans have greatly increased their registration and popularity over the past...