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...year-old shortstop and centerfielder, referring to the ribbing he got from his teammates during his chase. He had gone hitless in his last seven at bats. Yount will go down in the record books: so will Cleveland hurler Jose Mesa, as the guy who threw the pitch that Yount swatted into history...
...column. In his acceptance speech, he played the stature card, reminding Americans that on his watch the Berlin Wall fell, communism crumbled and Kuwait was liberated. After wrangling for weeks with advisers over how to reconcile his respectable record abroad with his listless performance at home, Bush reduced his pitch to two sentences: "This election is about change. The question is, Who do you trust to make change work for you?" Translation: "I'm not perfect, but the other guy's worse...
Striking themes more political than presidential, Bush attacked Clinton as a dangerous liberal who would raise taxes and has dithered at times of personal and national crisis. While perhaps not inspiring, Bush's lesser-of-two-evils pitch seemed to be working: by week's end polls showed that Bush was narrowing the gap as the relentless Republican attacks began to cut into Clinton's favorable ratings...
...ride for a hundred bucks or so a day, compared with more than $1,000 on a political airlift. Nor were the local news spots edited to 90 seconds a day -- more like 90 minutes. Engelberg's original idea was to steal the settings for Bush's family-values pitch before the President could arrive. The buses fit modest front-yard dimensions. The people flowed easily and eagerly out of the grass roots...
...That pitch roused the crowd in Houston, but polls show most Republicans still consider Quayle unqualified. And a slew of other presidential aspirants are also positioning themselves to run in 1996. Among them: chief of staff James Baker, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, Massachusetts Governor William Weld and William Bennett, former commander of the war on drugs. And Texas Senator Phil Gramm, another 1996 hopeful, hurt himself with a keynote address that delegates judged too long and snoozy. Then again, that was the rap on the 1988 keynote speech of the Democrat who now leads George Bush...