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...pack. At St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., last week, a student asked Lieberman about his greatest personal success and failure. I've seen politicians for many years answer such questions with incandescently phony candor. Lieberman, embarrassed, said, "Let me think for a minute." He began a standard biographical spiel. "I haven't forgotten your question," he said a few minutes later. And then finally, "I can't answer your question. My personal successes and failures are just too personal...
Sporting cargo pants and carrying a bike messenger bag across his shoulder, the young software writer turned candidate knocks on every door to remind voters of the impending election in a low-key spiel punctuated with the words “cool” and “sweet...
...Senator Jesse Helms launched a campaign to get 1 million conservatives to buy 20 shares of stock in CBS each and "become Dan Rather's boss." Conservatives still argue--garnering huge and sympathetic audiences in the process--that the traditional media giants lean left. But these days, that familiar spiel is done more for rhetorical effect. Conservatives know their power in talk radio, cable television and publishing, and they exult in it. Democratic Senator Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota recently commissioned a study of a week's worth of programming by the nation's 44 top-rated radio stations...
...keeps his eyes on the camera, brow slightly furrowed, his entire goateed face animated as he dives into an investigatory spiel about the integrity of the Harvard shuttle bus service...
...sales rep stationed at the front door of the Kroger supermarket in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, knew a family of attractive marks when she saw one. Here was a nice-looking young couple with their cooing newborn in the shopping cart: perfect targets for a high-speed spiel. "Have you had a family portrait yet? We're running a special deal this week, one 10 by 13-inch portrait, a $60 value, right now for just $8. Oh, the baby's so cute. Can I sign...