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...that, Gephardt's Iowa victory had about as much artistry as mud wrestling. Once again, Democrats had trouble tallying the returns, and the results are still incomplete. The state party's figures give Gephardt 31% support, Simon 27%, Dukakis 22% and Jesse Jackson a respectable 9%. Simon found the results galling; he finished a close second, yet his post-Iowa prospects were widely reported as near hopeless. Dukakis' mediocre finish was a fitting reward for a fuzzy campaign; yet he jetted off to New Hampshire with the euphoria of a MacArthur returning to the Philippines. At a Democratic dinner...
Wilfred Thesiger was born in June 1910 in a mud building in Addis Ababa. His father was the British Minister to Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and his mother, an Irish beauty, seems to have had a knack for prophetic understatement. "My mother," says Thesiger early in this autobiography, "always maintained that the first words I said were 'Go yay,' which meant 'Go away...
...this sun-creased survivor of courted hardships and invited dangers spends most of his time in northwestern Kenya, near the village of Maralal. There, TIME Correspondent James Wilde found Thesiger living simply in a mud- caulked house with a distant view of the Great Rift Valley escarpment. The shelter has a concrete floor, wire-mesh windows, no electricity and no well. There is a separate sleeping hut that the author shares with up to 15 villagers and tribal friends who, he notes, "snore like elephants...
...dark side of William Buckley may be Morton Downey Jr., a sneering mud wrestler who runs a nightly talk show out of New Jersey. That, of course, is not journalism. But otherwise respectable reporters and commentators come close sometimes to the circus form of opinion slinging. Consider the McLaughlin Group, presided over by the amiably thunder-browed ex-Jesuit John McLaughlin, who once worked as a speechwriter in Richard Nixon's White House. The McLaughlin Group is great fun, but brawly -- alive with spitballs, hoots of derision, melodramatic postures, overshouts...
...past. (Anything rooted in our future would be too speculative to merit discussion.) The earliest human writers were Cave Men who recorded their activities in Cave Language each day with Cave Pens on Dinosaur Hide. This proved disastrous when the dinosaurs selfishly decided to sink into deep and ubiquitous mud pits that, for advanced scientific reasons, appeared directly under each and every dinosaur far more than 20 years...