Word: steve
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...think it's great," Harvard coach Steve Locker said. "We figured that we'd get B.U. They're a very good team...
...just Dole who got rejected this week, or was it some fundamental dimension of the G.O.P. message? And if it was the message, which part? Did Dole move too far to the center or not far enough? Should he have stuck to tax cutting, as Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes kept insisting, or run against abortion and vulgar pop culture, as William Bennett and the Christian right were hoping? At one time or another, Dole tried to run all those ways, so his loss cast a shadow over every label and lets every wing of the party read the returns...
Then there are the supply-siders, who became a force in the party again this year largely because centimillionaire Steve Forbes discovered the joy of politicking. Forbes says Dole's 15% tax cut didn't catch on because Dole failed to stay on message. "If you don't hammer that proposal consistently, it becomes fuzzy," Forbes says. He will stay in the game through his think tank, a required accessory for any serious candidate, and may run again in 2000. But don't count on Kemp. Fellow conservatives are turning against him for declining to play Dole's attack...
Everything went wrong. Dole was so bloodied and bankrupted by Steve Forbes in the primaries that he never fully recovered. The choice of Kemp for Vice President seemed bold, but Kemp as candidate was not: he was weak and embarrassing. The Republicans took an early pounding on Medicare and were late in understanding the impact of a year's worth of anti-G.O.P. spots from what should once again be called Big Labor. The President's luck on almost everything held--until the very...
...chilling tale, produced in extraordinary collaboration by two of our savviest political analysts, senior writer Richard Stengel and senior correspondent Eric Pooley. "With Rick and Eric, you know you're going to get the story behind the story," says senior editor Priscilla Painton, who along with assistant managing editor Steve Koepp oversaw our election-issue package. "Eric burrows into a story and doesn't come back until he has every detail. Rick never loses sight of the big picture...