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...baseball, a team routinely scouts anopposing team's free agents. And in academia,elite research universities scout otherinstitutions for their next...
...save for the week's schedule of media interviews and a list of Perot coordinators in all 50 states. But at a time when Bush and Clinton are racing around the country, giving speeches, honing positions, posing against scenic backdrops, this small man, who loves the sobriquet "Billionaire Boy Scout," suddenly leads the polls. A TIME/CNN survey last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman underlines Perot's surprising appeal: he wins a three-way race for the White House with 33% to Bush's 28%, with Clinton trailing at 24%. Perot has done the impossible: crafted a credible national campaign...
...form of genius. Over the years, he has become far more sophisticated in his analysis of political issues, but he retains the glib salesman's tendency to reduce complex realities to catchy slogans. In the old days, he advocated, as a cure for poverty, teaching the Boy Scout Oath -- to do my best, to do my duty, to God and to my country -- to every child in the ghetto. Let's face it, it's not sufficient...
...first fueled rap. Some say Simmons has fallen out of touch and lost ground to younger, more radical hip-hoppers in Florida and California. Simmons admits that times have changed, but he isn't ready to retire yet. He still visits an average of 15 clubs a week to scout new talent. "We're not going to be as young and edgy as we were," he concedes. "But we're still in touch enough that we're way, way, way ahead of American pop culture...
PROFILE: The Billionaire Boy Scout...