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Dukakis could take his cue from the Massachusetts state advertising campaign, and attempt to convince the voters that he can "make the spirit of Massachusetts fit the spirit of America." Bush could remind the electorate that he is the living heir to the Reagan Revolution, and that the Republican reign will live...
Children are born anarchists. Babies reign in the solitary kingdom of ego, unable to distinguish the "I wanna" of whim from the "I gotta" of need. In an age of instant gratification and infant attention span, the popular arts have played to this childish impulse. Heavy-metal rock beats out its primal demands like a child pulling a high-chair tantrum. TV is the baby-sitter of a spoiled kid's dreams: it promises everything, never says no and lets you change the channel if you don't get what you want. And many movies these days are less adolescent...
...given the identification of the mystery plane as an F-14, there is some dispute as to whether an unmodified version of the craft would be capable of doing much damage to the Vincennes. The planes, built in the U.S. and sold to Iran in the 1970s during the reign of the Shah, are designed to fight other aircraft and are ordinarily equipped only with air-to-air, not ship-killing, missiles. The Pentagon retorts that Iran is known to have Harpoon antiship missiles and could have fired them; other experts doubt it. In any case, say some pilots...
...Crimson heavyweight crew's loss to Penn and Navy on April 30 this year ended the squad's bid for its 14th undefeated season under the 26-year reign of Coach Harry Parker...
...indicative of Mikhail Gorbachev's leash-loosening policies but also an official seal of disapproval on the past. Now every literate Soviet citizen can get a popularized characterization of Stalin as he broods about the brutal nature of power and dreams of rebuilding Moscow as a monument to his reign...