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...PEOPLE TEND TO PICK straightforward names for their pets, as with Gus, the slobbery Labrador who has been barking at former presidential candidate Phil Gramm for staying too long on the campaign trail. Lamar Alexander, though, is a cat person, and when his family acquired two new kittens last year, he dubbed them Kato and Ito, a hopeful play on the potential of fame. For the past year, as Alexander struggled to win the attention of Republican-primary voters, he would flash his chin-up smile and explain that he was "encouraged by the experience of Kato Kaelin that...
...EXPECTED, THE END OF civilization as we know it was announced on the back pages. On Feb. 10, 1996, in Philadelphia, while America was distracted by the rise of Pat Buchanan, the fall of Phil Gramm and other trifles, something large happened. German philosophers call such large events world-historical. This was larger. It was species-defining. The New York Times carried it on page...
MANCHESTER, N.H.--Just four days after Republican presidential candidate Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) threw in the towel, he threw his support to once-rival U.S. Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) Sunday afternoon...
Dole has seen his long-held lead steadily erode over the past week. On Sunday, he enlisted the aid of former president candidate Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) to portray himself as a true conservative and the only candidate able to beat President Clinton this November...
...Specter. Specter said that he disagreed with Buchanan on trade and felt Alexander was playing both sides of the abortion issue. "If you take the totality of his positions, I think he has the best program for America," Specter said of Dole. Specter's announcement came one day after Phil Gramm, who Dole once saw as his chief rival for the nomination, also threw his support to the Kansas Senator. The endorsement that may give Dole the biggest bounce in New Hampshire came today when former Boston Red Sox hero Ted Williams gave Dole the thumbs...