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...There's so much riding on one word?" Stephanopoulos asked in frustration. Yes, Morris said. The ad ran unchanged, and boomeranged. The pundits lit into Clinton as a rabbit puncher who first praised Dole for his service, then thumped him with a low blow. At a Clinton speech, hecklers held up signs that said, DOLE IS NO QUITTER. After that, Clinton pounded his consultant. "It's easy for you," he told Morris. "You don't have to stand up there and take the shit." Morris pulled the spot, but he was unrepentant. The ad, he insisted, had contained Dole...
...Their trademark is to be fair to each puncher, so if they're mean to you this week, they'll be nicer to you" at the club's initiation dinner this Friday, he said...
...They make us dress up like fools and walk around school," said a sophomore Owl puncher, who said pledges were instructed not to reveal their names or the nature of any punch activities which did not take place in public...
After the debate, Will carried his dual role a step further. He wrote a column heralding Reagan as the decisive winner of the debate. However, the consensus among others was that while Reagan was effective and hardly the bomb thrower portrayed by the Democrats, he was not a knockout puncher...
...Though he lacked the natural tools to excel, he worked harder than anyone else. In his third year, North fought his way into the academy's middleweight championship. At 147 lbs., he was scheduled to meet James Webb, now Secretary of the Navy. Webb was the favorite, a polished puncher; North the underdog, all blood and guts. In front of 1,500 screaming midshipmen, North won the three-round fight in a close decision. "Ollie was a Friday-night fighter," recalls his coach, Emerson Smith. "One of those guys who looks like a bum in the gym, then performs like...