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...Like the Retreat from Warsaw...
Dole's reconfiguration of that task began about four weeks ago while he was refurbishing his tan at his Florida retreat. It was there he resolved that he needed to shake things up dramatically, perhaps make a clean break with the Senate. When he returned to Washington, he discussed in a vague way the pros and cons of such a move with campaign chief Scott Reed. Then on April 23, the day of a desultory telephone conference call to the G.O.P.'s "Team 100" fund raisers, Dole sat in the sun outside his office with novelist and Wall Street Journal...
...Doles' grumbling spread through Republican circles, setting off a round of maneuvering and speculation about whether Dole, a man who has normally resisted taking advice, could find someone to impose order on his sometimes chaotic bid for the presidency. Explained a campaign official: "Dole will do what Dole does, retreat to the Senate and think about it for a while...
Perhaps because of the fact that social activities are generally dictated by class, or perhaps because of the tensions and anxieties surrounding interaction between members of different class backgrounds, students seem to retreat to those of their own socioeconomic background to find friends and roommates...
...pressure. Many have forgotten that the pressure has been brought on by the mayor himself. It was Barry who did much to get the city into the fix it's in. His departure announcement was full of self-pity, and as he disembarked from the plane at his second retreat in St. Louis, Missouri, he was reading an open Bible. Unfortunately, there's no place for citizens to seek "physical and spiritual renewal." We're stuck here with the mayor's memorable words to those who didn't vote for him in 1994: "Get over it." We're trying...