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...Kennedy family on Tuesday and then, the next night, a picket line: speakers from the teachers union, the AFL-CIO and the N.A.A.C.P. Four years ago, Bill Clinton won a landslide by serenading independent voters with themes like welfare reform, crime fighting, deficit reduction. Last week Gore sang that refrain too, but you had to listen carefully...
That last line is something of a refrain for Max, who sends his 11-year-old son to parochial school because the public school is a disaster. "Every four years, here's another guy in pants and a jacket telling us he's the education President. Am I right, or am I right? The Republicans were in charge for 12 years, and you couldn't send your kids to public school. The Democrats take over for eight years; nothing changes. Now George Bush is going to fix the public schools? Same guy who went to Andover and Yale?" Max throws...
...that overcame any reservations about whether the country is ready to vote for a Jewish vice president. As the first Democrat to unreservedly castigate President Clinton over Monica Lewinsky, Lieberman may have been the best choice to neutralize Governor Bush's "restore dignity and honor to the White House" refrain and pull the rug out from under Bush's strategy of running against President Clinton...
...There would be no bantering. Lewis would permit only the refrain of "Harvard...
Classiness can't be coerced. If we don't like a player's celebratory gyrations, we should resort to the fan's traditional outlets. We should refrain from buying his jersey. We should whine. We should boo. Who knows? Maybe the players will listen...