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Still, Lugar said that he has an outside shot at the Republican nomination, particularly if the campaign of current front-runner Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) falters...
...Steve Forbes has become the fastest-rising candidate in the contest. And he's about to get some prominent company. Next week a tax-reform commission headed by former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp will make its own proposal to flatten the federal income tax. Bob Dole, the Republican front runner and co-sponsor of the commission, is expected to endorse it. The idea is picking up so much steam that the real estate lobby is planning to broadcast radio commercials in Iowa and New Hampshire to pressure candidates not to make their tax plans too flat. The lobby is worried...
MEDIA-MERGER WALLFLOWER OF THE YEAR: Barry Diller. 1994: Tries for Tiffany Network. 1995: Gets Home Shopping Network. Runner-up: Rupert Murdoch...
THUG OF THE YEAR: Sani Abacha, leader and executioner of shell-shocked Nigerians. Runner-up: Ratko Mladic, the Serb who makes Milosevic look like a moderate...
FORGOTTEN MAN OF THE YEAR: Robert Vesco, Watergate-era outlaw, whose arrest caused barely a ripple. Runner-up: ... We forget