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...Working on a film or partying. First thing you notice about a boy: His eyes/hair/smile. Your best pick-up line: Ew, pick-up lines! Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I love you. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I heart Robb Moss. Favorite childhood toy: Oh there are so many...pogs, Guess Who, Creepy Crawlers and blankets (for making forts). Fave part about Harvard: The Seneca, the fencing team, all-nighters with fellow crazy VES kiddies. Describe yourself in three words: Passionate, driven, creative. In 15 minutes you are: Logging...
...incumbent President will be running, and so it could be wide open in both parties. On the Democratic side, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Senators Joseph Biden of Delaware, Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt and former Virginia Governor Charles Robb are all potential rivals. None can yet match Hart's name recognition, but for that very reason any of them could become what Hart was in 1984 and cannot be again: an exciting new face. As one political expert notes, the fact that Hart is well known is his biggest advantage...
Senator Ted Kennedy's withdrawal from the 1988 presidential campaign [NATION, Dec. 30] is a healing gift to the Democratic Party. We can now have a winning ticket with New York Governor Mario Cuomo as presidential candidate and Virginia's former Governor Charles Robb as vice-presidential nominee. Nancy Means Columbia...
...line, constituency-centered liberalism, what Kevin Phillips contemptuously calls "reactionary liberalism." That might have served some purpose in 1984. But what is the point now? Carter and Mondale are no more. Kennedy is gone, and even he supports Gramm-Rudman. We are all--Biden, Bradley, Babbitt, Gephardt and Robb--neoliberals now. There are no paleoliberals left, unless Mario Cuomo's principled disinclination to issue ostentatious rejections of the "past" tempts some to make the charge...
...General Electric, is now off its peak by 16%, at a recent $54. Yet the cash hoard just keeps growing, rising $7 billion in the first quarter alone. "A lot of investors might think that share buybacks and dividends and paying down debt are the way to go," says Robb Parlanti, a senior portfolio manager at Turner Investment Partners (which owns other energy stocks but not Exxon). "But the bigger question is, What are they going to do to grow the company long term?" That's a question that even the most disciplined companies eventually have to answer...