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Brown says he was surprised because Cohen offered such a slick package, including a formal letter on Lampoon stationary and one-page summaries of some of his story ideas...
...important, November's presidential election will be even more significant. For many students, this will be their first opportunity to help choose a U.S. president. In the upcoming elections, we urge all voters to focus on the current issues and to resist being swayed by the barrage of slick political advertising designed by campaign spin doctors...
...Dole's team is doing everything it can to keep him strapped down. "The Dole folks are really trying to crank up the Governors to freeze out Lamar," says a veteran G.O.P. campaign strategist. That may not be too difficult: privately, some Governors complain Alexander is a bit too slick for his own good, and they resent his string of sweetheart deals that tend to come a Governor's way but that many of them have nonetheless passed...
...Alexander, as skilled and slick a pol as ever pretended not to be one, the week finally gave him his spotlight. He woke up Tuesday morning with all sorts of advantages: he was still an unknown, so his negative ratings were low in a field where everyone else's were rising. He was so cash strapped he could barely afford negative ads, which allowed him to take credit for not running any. The morning after Iowa he spent on a conference call with more than 200 rainmakers, winning their promise to raise at least $5,000 each by week...
...well as leaks to reporters, to take advantage of his soft, blurry image and to define him their way: as a hypocrite posing as a folksy, plaid-clad "outsider" while pocketing millions of dollars in profits from insider investment deals not available to the average American; as another slick Southern Governor who repeatedly raised taxes and now dares to run as a conservative. Alexander's communications director, Mark Merritt, retorts, "Bob Dole is desperate, and now that we're gaining, he's taken up Steve Forbes' mudslinging mantle...