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Before his airport stunt made him a campus legend, B.J. had already experimented widely to find his place on campus...
...grabber, like when some Republicans in the U.S. Senate locked themselves in their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms to carry Bob Packwood feetfirst to the Senate floor (after determining that Lowell Weicker was too heavy). The stunt pulled by Democrats in the Texas legislature last week was to avoid a vote on redistricting the state to create more Republican members of Congress...
...champions edition. And ABC's The Bachelor will return, seeking a mate for Bob Guiney, the funny, big-boned guy spurned last season by bachelorette Trista Rehn--who will marry her beau Ryan Sutter next fall, on ABC, of course. Nothing says "I love you" like a sweeps stunt...
...wake of Bush's flying stunt, a new and unfair test was proposed by journalists--the aircraft-carrier primary: Which of the Democrats could have duplicated Bush's photo op without seeming foolish? Not Lieberman, and certainly not Dean. John Edwards and Dick Gephardt are plausible flyboys, and Bob Graham might have been at one time. No, Kerry wins this contest hands down. His military record is his ticket to this dance. On the day before the debate, Kerry did something no other Democrat in the race could do. He gave a moving tribute, surrounded by Vietnam combat veterans...
...because it is. Official checks on executive power matter far more than a president’s public “affectations.” The only link between appearing in military uniform and tyrannically taking over the U.S. that Krugman establishes is that Bush might use the stunt to boost his popularity (“Boulanger became immensely popular?...