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Despite losing Co-Captains Bryan Randall and Len Baselak, Dartmouth still has the best pure shooter in the Ivies in senior Jim Barton. The Green co-captain was 14th in the nation in scoring, fourth in free-throw percentage, led the Ivies with a 23.8 points per game average and is the odds-on favorite to be the league's top scorer again...
Carril, who has won 358 games in his career at Princeton, likes a good defensive team, and last year he was a very happy man. The Tigers allowed the third-fewest points in the nation (56.4 p.p.g.), and won 17 games, including an upset over Seton Hall...
...clincher, so far as convincing Bush went, was the fact that Dukakis was being deceptive about his past, trying to deny his liberalism, to mask the menace to the nation presented by his softness on crime and defense. If Ailes could make that case to Bush, then the Pledge issue, the Horton horror stories, the A.C.L.U. membership (clashing with Dukakis' nonideological pose), would make sense to Bush as defensive actions against the broad assault of Dukakis...
...done when the Pledge came up was appear with John Glenn and other patriotic icons of the Democratic Party to say the flag was being cheapened by the attack on Supreme Court rulings. On the Horton issue, Dukakis should have had a panel of penologists appearing to explain the nation's furlough systems, their risks and rewards as proved over time, and comparing the various state and federal programs with the Massachusetts one. On the A.C.L.U., Dukakis should have appeared with officers of that organization and joked about all the times they had disagreed in the past, while asserting that...
...chance to put his name on an era. The beginning of the decade that will end the century is destined to become known as the Bush years. The new President enters office with no clear mandate for imposing the tough solutions that will be necessary to tackle the nation's festering budget crisis. Nor has he propounded a vision for fin-de-siecle America or for a world that is moving beyond the cold war. Nevertheless, he won the 1988 election with a toughness that surprised even his friends, and now he faces the opportunity and the challenge of serving...