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Bill Clinton took a verbal licking, kept on ticking and won by a landslide [ELECTION 96, Nov. 18]. He ran an optimistic campaign focused on the future. Bob Dole ran for the title of Meanest Man in America. The outrage backfired on Dole. Ross Perot ran a super-paranoid blitzkrieg assault. Character assassination and hate politics must not be utilized as tactics to win an election (period). Campaign-finance reform is needed, and campaign-hate reform too. President Clinton will lead America forward into the 21st century with a lot of hope, vision and dreams for a better nation...
...Establishment's own darling prothonotary warbler. Chambers, sad-sack Dostoyevskian pudge, more Slavic than American in mind, with terrible teeth and an air of doom, seemed to inhabit a flinching shadow world. He dodged through the '30s packing a revolver and hugging the walls of dark corridors. A paranoid smudge, the mandarins thought, whose amorphous bulk concealed a damaged child given to imagining grandiose conspiracies, and messiah roles for himself. Poor Chambers was brutally and dismissively psychoanalyzed, more so than Hiss...
...Strategic and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines, "but there was agreement on the first draft in only three minutes." She credits successful diplomacy for the smoothing of Beijing feathers. "Perhaps because people (in the group) are no longer ganging up against the Chinese, they are less paranoid." But to the paranoiac always comes a threat, and China's other hand is a fist. In Hong Kong Thursday, pro-democracy activists rallied outside a conference hall that will tomorrow host China foreign minister Qian Qichen at a meeting to pick Hong Kong's first leader under Chinese rule...
...Rosenthal] was paranoid, upset that she had changed and was becoming an alien. He didn't recognize her," Zalkind said in a telephone interview yesterday...
...contained school of thought that believes that the ultimate truth of the universe is known only to those who think exactly as its members do. Its core beliefs seem to be comprised of a heavy dose of fundamentalist Christianity mixed with supply-side economics, and topped off by a paranoid hostility toward anything different. We gaze in collective wonderment as it recklessly attacks gays, women and anyone less conservative than itself...