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When an assassin's bullet cut down popular Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986, many Swedes assumed that it had crippled his ruling Social Democratic Party as well. Scandals plagued the government of his successor, the stolid Ingvar Carlsson, and a swing toward conservatism among young voters seemed to make a change all but inevitable...
...this week George Bush and Michael Dukakis are preparing intensely for Sunday night's kickoff debate. But the briefing books will soon be put aside so that they can turn their full attention to one of democracy's most important tests: delivering the "spontaneous" one-liners that could swing the election. At Bush headquarters, Roger Ailes is probably going over the script now. "Take it from the top, George. You turn to Dukakis and say, 'Governor, you call yourself a patriot, but I bet you don't even know the fourth verse of our national anthem.' " The sessions...
...example, Jackson, one of baseball's greatest hitters, became a victim of the conspiracy, since he couldn't read or write. Sweeney, whose swing could rival that of some real-life baseball players, brilliantly portrays Jackson as a simple man who knows only one thing: how to hit a baseball. Buck Weaver also represents this innocence, and Cusack does an exceptional job of playing this typical "man against the world" character...
...namely to Black communities. Recently, the Dukakis campaign alloted Jackson and other Black Democratic leaders $5 million of the Dukakis campaign's $50 million budget for a get-out-the-Black-vote drive. Dukakis himself seems intent on remaining out of Black communites lest some white swing voters deem him sympathetic to Black causes...
...really. A pitcher needs to be able to sight along the line of a pitch. On the other hand, a lefthanded batter with, say, a batting average of .300 probably has a sharp right eye turned toward the pitcher and a well-tuned left hand to guide his swing. The researchers advise young athletes to take their cue from their dominant eye: "If right-eyed, bat lefthanded, and if left-eyed, bat righthanded." Portal notes, however, that stellar sluggers and pitchers appear to be in a league apart; they don't favor either eye. Says...