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...Forbes' cheerleaders, the supply-side economist Jude Wanniski, admits that in the end, "sometimes the best thing that could happen might just be that someone else steals your message." In the meantime, "he's having the time of his life," says writer Peggy Noonan, a friend who also helped polish Forbes' announcement speech. But his 18-hour days on the campaign trail are anything but a holiday. At a Burger King in Iowa City recently (Forbes is keen on the French fries), he was approached by a woman holding a baby in one arm and a Whopper in the other...
...barely five years later, ex-communists have returned to power across much of Eastern Europe, and last week the mighty Walesa himself fell victim to the comrades' comeback. Aleksander Kwasniewski, 41, a minister in the last communist Polish government, defeated the old Solidarity war-horse in a runoff presidential election. Kwasniewski's Social Democratic Party, created from the remnants of communism in 1990, already leads a governing coalition in the parliament, and the President-elect will play a vital role in the creation of a constitution to guide Poland into the next century. "He is the Moses of the Polish...
...mere misery that defeated Walesa. Kwasniewski's appeal was more to youth and the future than to the stern stability of the communist past. His movie-star good looks and pleasant manner contrasted with a graying, truculent Walesa, who directed his appeal to a Polish Catholic conservatism that is going out of style. "It's more true that Walesa lost the election than that Kwasniewski won it," says Bronislaw Geremek, chairman of the Sejm's Foreign Affairs Committee...
...rough arrogance with gentle gibes. "I appreciate Mr. Walesa's achievements," he remarked. "But he reminds me of an athlete who keeps harking back to the fact that he once won a gold medal." The challenger's strategy worked. "Symbolically, Kwasniewski represented modernity and change," says Wiktor Osiatynski, a Polish historian. "It is a corrupted modernity with a communist past on its back, but it's still modernity...
...Landers could use a little advice. The columnist, who cheerfully uttered a grab-bag of insults about famous figures in a New York magazine profile published this week, today apologized to the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America for having called Pope John Paul II a "polack" in the article. "It's time to get out the wet noodle and give myself 40 lashes," read a statement. "I should not have used a slang term for Polish. It was poor judgment, and I apologize." Landers, who once topped a World Almanac poll as the most influential woman in the United...