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...rematch is now at hand. The candidates talk a lot about down-to-earth issues: jobs, crime and education. In fact, the central questions are personal: Is the once condescending Bill Clinton now sorry that he put on airs? And will voters give him a second term in Little Rock? Clinton insists that he has reformed. "I was too inflexible," he concedes. "This is a very personal state that requires a high level of accessibility. I'm ready to correct past mistakes...
...unusually large turnout left its mark on most cases. The bitter rematch between Gov. Edward J. King and the man he beat four years ago, Michael S. Dukakis, drew more than a million voters across the state. In Cambridge alone, 25,000 Democrats cast ballots Tuesday, twice as many as in 1980 and 60 percent more than...
...year drive to win ratification for the Equal Rights Amendment was over. But Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, which led the push for the ERA, still had fire in her eyes, like a boxer who felt robbed by the judges and was demanding a rematch. "It's been a long and tough fight," she said. "The forces against equality are large. But support for the ERA is overwhelming. The campaign is not over. We know that we are the wave of the future...
...effete snob. He was unseated in 1980 by Republican Frank White, who portrayed himself as the down-home candidate. This time Clinton ran as a man who was not too smart to listen to the people. He won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in a runoff and faces a November rematch with White...
...tries to teach Rocky the new boxing method he must acquire to beat Lang-quick, stylish and black. Rocky is slow to pick it up and agonizes in self-pity. It remains for Adrian to deliver the ultimatum: go for it-the Rocky motto-or give up the rematch...