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McCain received most of the independent votes--76 to 21 percent--as well as 88 percent of self-described Democratic voters. Among Republicans, Bush held a slight edge of 49 to 47 percent...
Part of McCain's appeal to college students, then, has to do with his gentle contempt for their parents: his rhetoric is, in part, meant to cause something of a Thermidorian Reaction against the ever-indulgent boomers. Rebelling against rebellion is a difficult trick, but with a clever slight of hand a skilled leader can rouse the rabble under the flag of prudence...
...special friend: his drive to reinstate the exemptions of 111 schools including B.J.U. was thwarted only by a Supreme Court ruling. Thus far, Bush is not so heavily invested. Says William Donohue, the head of the Catholic League and normally the first to detect any anti-Catholic slight: "The problem with Bush...is that he just doesn't get it. But I don't think he's a bigot." However, Donohue says he thinks the Republicans will suffer as Catholics "connect the dots" between the B.J.U. issue and the fact that "Timothy O'Brien is being screwed...
Largent, like the other Republicans, says he meant no anti-Catholic slight. "If this wasn't an election year," he says, "we wouldn't be discussing this." That may be; and Bush's sin was probably one of political necessity, not religious intolerance. However, both Largent, as a proponent of prayer in the schools, and Bush, who believes churches should be prominent distributors of government money, have a lot riding on the idea that believers of various creeds will lay aside their differences in the name of God and country. The past week or so may have given them...
...Such is retail in modern America: first B. Altman, then Gimbels and now the legendary Bonwit's. Despite a slight uptick in business caused by the current economic boom, the one-stop-shop department store has seen its business stolen by two phenomenons: the discount store (Wal-Mart, et al.) and "category killers" (Bed Bath and Beyond, Home Depot). "Bonwit's has the same story of many of the great old department stores," says TIME business editor Bill Saporito. "Once the original family sold it, it fell into financial mismanagement. But at the same time there's just no market...