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...Clinton is not playing it safe, his personality is a pole away from Michael Dukakis': he looks happy at the risk of seeming insufficiently serious. His version of a campaign handshake ranges from a bear hug to a full body slam. As he plays host at yet another fund raiser and poses for one more picture at a campaign breakfast with a woman dressed as if it's cocktail hour, he can be as ingratiating as a frat-house president during rush week. He told a voter during his last Governor's race, "I was afraid you might be tired...
...Wall Street and the drug dealers of Mean Street, and again when he laced into George Bush for dividing the country by using the oldest tactic in the book: "You find the most economically insecure white people, and you scare the living daylights out of them." At a fund raiser for Illinois Democrats, he showed he can make the case that America is wasting much of its young generation. "It's a long, long way in this country from me at the age of six holding my great-granddaddy's hand to a condition where children on the streets...
...daughter Natalie reprised his Unforgettable earlier this year, laid in her dad's voice for a posthumous duet and grabbed herself a No. 1 album. A new Cole biography was published this spring. Every time PBS has a time slot to fill or needs to kick off a fund raiser, it seems to air a show from Cole's '50s TV variety series...
...supremacist group called the National Association for the Advancement of White People. The divorced father of two teenage daughters, Duke held no regular job before his election to the state legislature. He has supported himself as a seller of racist and anti-Semitic literature and as a professional fund raiser for his own right-wing causes...
There was predictable talk about forming a third political party dedicated to women's causes. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee -- headed by Virginia Senator Charles Robb, who cast his vote for Thomas -- took a double hit. Its annual fund raiser in Washington was picketed by feminists, and the liberal direct-mail firm of Craver, Matthews, Smith announced it was dropping the group as a client. Some of the party's most loyal contributors, including MCA chairman Lew Wasserman and Democratic doyenne Pamela Harriman, put the party on notice that they would not raise a dime for the 11 Democratic Senators...