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...course, but the fact that he is staying there has frustrated the popular wisdom that an early front runner is doomed to fall. This time it's the also-rans who are doing that. His rivals have stumbled and stagnated, which means that each week without a Dole misstep reduces the chances that they will ever catch up. The growing sense that the second tier is fading, however, has raised the prospect that other contenders will jump in, chief among them Newt Gingrich...
Democrats say the Contract was the first major misstep the Republicans have made in this year's campaign. Even many Republicans have been shying away from it. For one thing, by promising tax cuts without explaining how they fit into deficit reduction, they seemed like practitioners of the feel-good foolery that made voters cynical in the first place. "If all you wanted to worry about was how do you maximize public anger and minimize your own risk, no Contract would have been a safer stand," Gingrich admits. "It also would have been worse for America. In the long...
...election chances when he seized upon the Israeli-Jordanian settlement to fly off to dramatic presidential appearances in Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Jerusalem, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He quickly discovered that the Middle East and its problems guarantee not only the world's attention but risks, surprises and, for every misstep, a potential explosion...
...misstep, not a rock, that toppled Dante, and only after the robot had completed its main mission: a detailed study of the crater floor 300 ft. below the rim of Alaska's active Mount Spurr volcano that included a 3-D survey of the hellish terrain and an analysis of gases issuing from belching vents. Among the significant results: the first maps of the crater's surface, normally hidden by outcroppings and haze. Dante also discovered scant sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide in the noxious air, implying that the volcano, which erupted in 1992, will probably stay quiet...
...Nichols and the writers (novelist Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick) are treading a fine high wire; one misstep and off you tumble into self-satire, the modern horror film's omnipresent danger. But by provoking authentic laughter with their satirical thrusts at current corporate styles (Spader is a hilarious model of yuppie unctuousness), they make sure we are amused often and always at the right moments. If Nichols had less skill, we would crack up when the moon is full and Nicholson's stunt double starts leaping around the countryside, but using low light and slow motion, the director displays...