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...longevity and focus on the local, Duehay has earned favorable comparisons to former Speaker of the House Democrat Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, another Cambridge politician...
...times, Forbes' crowds hit 200 in Iowa, where he has county chairmen in all 99 counties, as opposed to just 36 in 1996. He is genuine, some fans rave. He is not a politician, say others. In Bettendorf, at the medieval Jumer's Castle Lodge, Forbes played King Arthur to 300 loyal knights, each of whom--while dining on free Swedish meatballs--was asked to deliver five friends or relatives to the caucuses. Forbes wowed them with bug-eyed passion, some pretty good one-liners and simplistic but perfectly aimed shots at lobbyists, bureaucrats and Monica's ex-beau...
...described how Elizabet drowned. She was one of the first to go, dragged under by rough seas while trying to lash Elian to his inner tube. One day, while spreading newspapers on the kitchen floor to house-train the boy's new puppy (a gift from a Cuban-American politician), Lazaro says, he inadvertently put down a page that bore a large picture of Elizabet. Seeing it, Elian shouted and cried. He made Lazaro cut it out and frame it for his bedside. When the reality of what happened out in the ocean comes crashing down on Elian, and when...
...such times, Bradley looks at the Vice President as if Gore had suddenly morphed into an overripe mackerel; Bradley's voice, normally so flat and affectless, drips with sarcasm and a condescension that borders on contempt. Because to Bradley, who really does see himself as a better class of politician, Gore is an opportunist driven by ambition instead of principle--the kind of candidate who will demand on Wednesday that his Pentagon leaders support gays in the military, then backpedal on Friday. "Bill sees Gore as a smaller guy, a smaller guy all around," says someone close to Bradley. "Gore...
...politically influential adults say they can offer him a better life. This might sound like Elian Gonzalez, but instead it's the case all of Chicago was talking about last week: Baby T, the toddler taken from a drug-abusing black mother and given to a powerful white Democratic politician and his wife, a state court judge...