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Lennon, a vocal supporter of independent presidential candidate Ross Perot, produced a copy of Perot's platform from a worn green bag. Lennon insisted that Enfield read aloud from the sections detailing Perot's pro-Choice and pro-contraception views...
...other end of the spectrum from Bush, Ross Perot wants an "activist government" approach to gasoline use: namely, penalizing car owners. This plan has received more praise than it deserves. Whenever a candidate talks about sacrifice, the press calls him courageous. Taking money from the middle class isn't courageous. The most courageous sacrifice Ross could make would be to say: "Instead of raising taxes on hard-working folks or on productive capitalists, I'm donating a few spare billions of my own to the Federal Treasury...
...with TV debates, was when they had to begin. But if anything, their foray seemed to go backward. The latest USA Today/CNN/Gallup tracking poll showed Bill Clinton with an almost unchanged 13-point lead -- and that was on the eve of the big face-off with George Bush and Ross Perot Thursday night, from which the Democrat emerged a clear winner. To some viewers, in fact, Bush seemed to adopt an almost elegiac tone, as if he knew he had lost and had decided to bow out with dignity -- though that may have been primarily a consequence of a format...
What is left for Ross Perot is the rehabilitation of his reputation. Without the oxygen of feedback -- the laughs and snickers that accompany his homilies when his fabulists people the room -- Perot's act quickly tires. As he moves beyond diagnosis to prescription, Perot must ensure his presentation is persuasive enough so that if the nation's stagnation continues, he can reappear in 1996 to ask credibly, "Now are you ready to act instead of talk...
...offense, though, has been as come and go as Ross Perot this season. Against Lafayette, the Crimson attack may have revived itself. Quarterback Mike Giardi did the magical things that earned him lavish praise last year, and the receivers and backs made the key plays. Harvard piled up 29 points, the most it has scored all season. OK, Lafayette's defense is one of the worst in the Patriot League. Yes, the Crimson's hands still look like they're dripping 10W-40. And, sure enough, Harvard did, lose to Lafayette...