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...Director and former Pennsylvania Gov. Richard L. Thornburgh left his Harvard post this summer to replace Edwin Meese III as U.S. attorney general. Onlookers have speculated that Thornburgh accepted the Reagan appointment--which would expire in January--with the hopes that, if Bush were elected in November, he would stay on. Should Dukakis win, however, Thornburgh would have to vacate the post, perhaps returning...
...have to listen to presidential candidates to realize that the American family is the national religion. It is a religion based on a noble fantasy: the dream of blood belonging. Some families stay together through love, or through propriety or inertia. All are bound by intimately shared joy and pain, by a need to keep the dream of personal immortality alive for just one more generation. Every parent must believe he will be born again in the new, improved image of his child...
Danny is the best of both parents: gifted, generous, fiercely loyal. Growing up fugitive, he has acquired the cagey independence of an Army brat. He knows enough to stay home from school the day of the class picture. A sixth sense of self-protection tells him when someone has entered the room behind him. By nature gregarious, he must keep the truth about his family guarded from those who would be his pals. But Danny is, after all, a teenager. He has a girlfriend (Martha Plimpton) now, and a secret that is aching to burst from him like young lust...
...come across to suburbanites, in California as in Illinois, as one of them. Says Political Consultant Hank Morris: "California is almost all suburbs, so there is a great opportunity for Dukakis to emphasize that he is the first presidential nominee to grow up in the suburbs and to stay there, commuting to work and mowing the lawn and knowing the concerns of suburbanites...
Wall's spending spree is motivated partly by deadlines, he acknowledges. The regulator wants to expedite bailouts before the current fiscal year ends, on Sept. 30, so that next year's FSLIC spending will stay within the confines of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law. Wall's next rescue candidate could be a whopper: the American Savings and Loan Association of Stockton, Calif., whose bail-out may cost $2 billion...