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...them should even try. At this late date it would be hard to raise the millions of dollars necessary for a credible race. Ross Perot's nascent party would seem a convenient vehicle for an independent candidacy, but none of the participants wants to be seen as a Perot puppet. Still, the Lamm group would like to run its own candidate and, failing that, nudge those in the race toward their positions. "There is the danger of creating a spoiler and ending up with a worse result,'' frets Tsongas. The remarkable thing, perhaps, is that such a group of professional...
Birnbaum notes that Ross Perot's nascent party might be a possible vehicle for the group, but he adds that none of the participants wants to be seen as a Perot puppet. There are also some ideological disagreements: "The seven in this group are all free traders, something that Perot is opposed...
There is much to admire in director George C. Wolfe's eclectic production, which draws on Kabuki, Balinese puppet theater, rap, jazzy percussion. This is a big, bold, colorful spectacle--a boiling sea of sights and sounds. But something is radically--fatally--wrong with any production in which lines like Miranda's "Oh brave new world/ That has such people in't!" or Antonio's "Say this were death that now hath seized them" are laugh getters...
...confidence or something darker? "What John Malone giveth, John Malone can taketh away," says Porter Bibb, a media-investment banker at Ladenburg, Thalmann who has been a frequent critic of Levin's. Bibb believes that Malone saw the merger as an avenue to power. "Levin is now a puppet on Malone's strings. Malone is never going to be CEO of Time Warner. He'll probably never sit on the board. But he wanted to control Levin, and now he does." A scenario even has Malone divesting some cable interests, getting back his voting stock and making...
Campbell dismissed Williams' charge that theHRC is essentially a "Peninsula puppet...