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...fact, the Perot camp had realized for weeks that a three-way race could push the decision into the House and discussed that possibility. Further, Bill Clinton's pitch and program today differ only in nuance from what he and some of the other Democrats were saying as early as January, before Perot promised to wage "a world-class campaign" if volunteers succeeded in their petition drives...
...American Utopia? Lately it's a dream that was, a twilit memory of the golden age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a blue-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The promise of paradise regained has become a key to the Democratic Party pitch. Mickey Kaus, a senior editor of the New Republic, says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U.S. enters a world where only the highly skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich and poor is going to keep growing. No fiddling with...
...wronger and wrongest are the whitest black people ever seen off the set of The Cosby Show. This is high-class soap opera, and the big, unstated joke is that the soap is Ivory. That may be why Pocket Books just bid $2.64 million for paperback rights. The subliminal pitch, a home truth for gender warriors of all colors, is that buppies are just as baffled by their disconnected lives as are their tight white cousins...
...speech included a pitch for Clinton's"domestic G.I. Bill" proposal for student loans.Clinton said the New Covenant creates "an Americain which the doors of college are thrown open onceagain to the sons and daughters of stenographersand steelworkers. We'll say, everybody can borrowthe money to go to college. But you must do yourpart. You must pay it back from your paychecks, orbetter yet, by going back home and serving yourcommunities...
...idea of asking Americans to pitch in andhelp make government work was reminiscent of theinaugural address of John F. Kennedy '40. Clintontold Americans last night, "you must do your part,you must be responsible...