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...George Bush in 1988 by winning 37.4% of the vote. No matter how strong the state's economy has become--unemployment stands at 3.2%, well below the national average--or how many goods are exported with the help of Clinton's hated trade agreements, Buchanan could count on large, rapt, eager crowds wherever he went, of displaced workers and converted flower children and anyone hungry for true conviction. Some proved too zealous even for Buchanan. On Thursday he was forced to suspend his campaign co-chairman Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, when it was revealed that...
...Feel like I should do a little Shakespeare," Pat says with a laugh, before telling his rapt audience just how he has come to be standing on this stage as the premier challenger to Bob Dole for the Republican presidential nomination. He recounts his achievements in Alaska, Louisiana and Iowa, ticking them off like battles from the Civil War. He pays tribute to "the rebels" of Lexington and Concord, "brave men who died for the idea of freedom." Buchanan, who loves costumes, is the only candidate who would not look strange in either Lincoln's stovepipe or Washington's tricorne...
...like legal billing sheets, she carried them off in a box with some knick-knacks. It was not until Jan. 4 that, while straightening her own East Wing office, she looked a bit more closely. At that point, as she testified last Thursday before Senator Alfonse D'Amato's rapt Whitewater Committee, "I sat down for a few minutes and thought." Then, she said, "I called Mr. [David] Kendall," the Clintons' private lawyer. And then she rang her own attorney...
...commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire. Call it recreational primitivism. But the mind needs its rest too. So we go intellectual backpacking: We dabble in potions and auras; we give rapt attention to bearers of tales of alien abduction and Satanism in schools. "I can stand brute force," wrote Oscar Wilde, "but brute reason is quite unbearable." Ah, the relief...
During oral argument, Deputy Solicitor General Paul Bender grabbed the rapt attention of the Justices when he harked back to a certain law school that refused to admit women, claiming they would run in tears from the lecture hall, unable to cope with the harsh Socratic method, the legal version of hazing. Five of the Justices recognized the school as their alma mater, Harvard Law School. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the first women to get there, seemed to hold back a smile. VMI and the Citadel might want to start building those women's bathrooms...