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...seeming mismatch between the party's needs and Brown's temperament has politicians guessing about his prospects. "Depending upon how he handles it," says a longtime friend, "it could be the rehabilitation of Jerry Brown and of the Democratic Party in California. Or it could be the return of the flake." The greatest fear is that his election will undermine Democratic candidates by giving Republicans a chance to dredge up his Moonbeam past. Brown thinks otherwise. "I can become the media black hole that absorbs all the negative feedback," says he. "I can absorb a lot of flak that would...
...President's a-little-something-for-everyone approach to Government, lurching from new national parklands to a statehood referendum for Puerto Rico, at times sounded as if it had been borrowed from Lyndon Johnson. But . often the mismatch between promises and price tags bordered on the comic. Bush took pains to recall that he had promised to be "the Education President," and invited his audience to join the crusade by enlisting as "the Education Congress." Yet the up-front cost of the President's innovative proposals comes to a paltry $58 million, less than $1.50 for every child...
Sometimes, no words can present the full picture of a game. Sometimes, only the score can: Harvard 106, Smith 34. Blow-out, mismatch, one-sided, keep searching...
...what some called the mismatch of the decade, the Crimson demolished Bucknell, 59-0, at The Stadium for its second win of the season...
Politically Sontag describes herself as a social democrat. But in the 1960s, amid the revulsion aroused by the Viet Nam War, she traveled to Havana and Hanoi and wrote about both places sympathetically, though not without misgivings. Read today, the mismatch in those essays between her complex inquiries and the nostrums of Communism is palpable. Her lingering reputation as a leftist, however, explains the fire storm she set off with a brief speech six years ago at a New York City forum to voice support for Poland's Solidarity labor union. Though the session had been organized by a coalition...