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Every game against the Yankees becomes a battle for cultural supremacy reminiscent of Cold War athletic contests against the Soviet Union. Drawing on Ronald Reagan’s anti-Soviet propaganda, Red Sox President Larry Lucchino has even labeled the Yankees an “Evil Empire...
...pollsters' favorite questions is this: Do you think the country is on the right track, or do you think it's going in the wrong direction? As you would expect, when the right-track number is pretty high or rising, incumbents do well (Ronald Reagan in 1984, Bill Clinton in 1996), or the incumbent's party does well (George H.W. Bush in 1988). When the wrong-track number goes up, the party in power gets ousted. The public wants change and gets it by defeating the incumbent--Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush...
...that, Crist suggests, is precisely the point--pulling the G.O.P. mainstream back to "the more inclusive roots of the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. It's important that our party grow," he says, noting that he won more of Florida's black vote (almost 20%) than any other Republican gubernatorial candidate in recent history. So far the Crist approach is working: his approval rating is at 73%. That's one more reason the presidential candidates from both parties will soon be showing up at Crist's door, where they will find a new power broker both...
...Footsteps of R.F.K.? The only people nostalgically looking for repeat performances by surrogates for Ronald Reagan and Robert Kennedy are political junkies and ideologues like Kristol [April 9]. People in the street are looking for something promised by both of these dead icons but delivered by neither: peace, prosperity and a better future for the next generation. Anyone who thinks that the President's most important job is giving inspirational speeches - the main talent shown by both of these icons and by both of Kristol's presumptive successors - is a damned fool. David P. Vernon, TUCSON, ARIZONA, U.S. Tense Times...
...escalating war of words between Washington and Moscow over U.S. plans to build missile-defense facilities in Eastern Europe has left U.S. officials wondering whether Russia is living in the last century. Sure, Moscow had reason to fear President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program, which he made clear was part of a plan to bankrupt the then-Soviet Union by pouring billions into a missile shield that he vowed would render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." But that was so 20th century...