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Despite Noam Cohen's sage advice to avoid criticizing rabbis, ("Issues of the Day" Sept. 26, 1988), we feel compelled to respond to a letter written by Harvard-Radcliffe Rabbis Ben-Zion Gold, Avi Weinstein, and Sally Finestone appearing in the same day's Crimson...
After reading Spencer Hsu's article "Orchestra Crippled by Missing Funds" of September 20th, I felt I had to respond to some of the misunderstandings and untruths contained therein...
...overly defensive. There was the blustery insistence that the threadbare good-jobs-at-good-wages themes of the primaries would work against Bush, combined with the insecure reluctance to reach out to battle-tested Democrats who had worked for other candidates. There was virtually no planning, no ability to respond to Bush's attacks, and logistics out of the whistle-stop era. Dukakis would have to work until after midnight revising a speech he had just received for the next morning's breakfast event. All too often the candidate would take wooden prose and tired arguments and, miraculously, make them...
More than anything, Sasso has brought an end to turn-the-other-cheek piety in the face of the Vice President's attacks. Flying from Houston to Kentucky last Tuesday morning, the Dukakis staff mulled over how to respond to Bush's substantive event for the day: a visit to a New Jersey flag factory. At Sasso's direction, a group of aides gathered at the front of the plane to concoct a sound bite that would contrast Bush's flag-draped photo opportunity with Dukakis' upcoming speech on universal health insurance. The winning jab: "I have a question...
Blocky and blunt, Sasso is neither intellectual nor especially articulate. He is a coalition builder who knows when and how to compromise. Unlike Dukakis, he reaches out to people, and people respond. He engenders loyalty and returns it. The civic-minded Dukakis sometimes gives the impression that he considers himself too good for politics. "What Sasso brought to Dukakis," says Paul Pezzella, the campaign's Florida director, "was the conviction that good government and good politics are one and the same...