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...assembled a big-spending war machine fueled by "soft-money" donations to the Democratic National Committee and founded on a rocklike faith in opinion polls. The surveys were used not just to gauge voter attitudes but also to shape Clinton's arguments, test and refine his television commercials and recast his public image. Because swing voters liked outdoorsy vacations, for example, the First Family would take their summer break in Wyoming...
...lost more than it gained. Those eager to remove Saddam dismissed the U.S. strikes as mere pinpricks. Most countries considered them an unwarranted example of U.S. globo-copping, self-serving unilateral military action dictated by election-year politics. The suffering of ordinary Iraqis after five years of embargo has recast the U.S. as the bully and Iraq as the victim...
...practice of tinkering with shows is not uncommon--tertiary roles are often recast, for example--but this year changes have been far more sweeping. In one of the most talked-about shifts, ABC's drama Murder One, which failed to keep viewers hooked last year despite lavish acclaim, will lose the solemnly didactic lead attorney played by Daniel Benzali. In his stead is younger, rich-of-hair Anthony LaPaglia. Another change: instead of following a single trial over the course of the season as it did last year, this time Murder One will track three consecutively...
...common--and there will be a parade of such initiatives from now until November--is that they are designed to cast the President in effect as the energetic young man standing in the rye, protecting our children from running over the cliff. It is a strategy designed to recast the image of government: instead of the supercilious bureaucrat with mountains of paper and regulations, government now becomes the safety-patrol volunteer, the lifeguard, the friendly cop on the beat buying a lost child an ice cream cone before calling his worried parents...
...incredibly awkwardly-named group called the Committee for Radical Structural Reform that was run by teaching fellows such as Marc J. Roberts '65 used mass meetings at Harvard Stadium in essence to co-opt the mob and recast the demands of SDS into a form that Harvard could deal with...