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...avoided the lure of politics until 1980, when, with the P.R.I.'s backing, he was elected governor of his home state of Michoacan. By the end of his term in 1986, Cardenas was voicing doubts about the P.R.I.'s commitment to Mexico's poor. He was quickly informed by party leaders that such comments were unwelcome, even from governors with illustrious names...
...Kennedy, in fact or by association, felt as if the bullet had struck them -- people in Brookline, where Kennedy was born; in Boston, his political base; in state politics, still charged with the energies of his election. Michael Dukakis, born and raised in Brookline, was serving his first term in the legislature; he was among those exposed to the sharpest sense of loss. He had pointed to Kennedy's career as a model for his own -- written college advice to his Senate office, attended as a 26-year- old spectator the convention that nominated him in Los Angeles, invoked...
...that self-confidence the Dukakis-Boukis marriage was meant to instill. Stelian attempted suicide, and was committed to mental care. He lived on, erratically, for 22 more years, haunting the outskirts of his brother's career, organizing with him in the heady days of the C.O.D., winning his own term on the town-meeting committee, then changing party, competing for the votes of his parents (who had to change their registration to Republican when Stelian was on that ticket), trying to sabotage a campaign by his brother. In 1973 his bike was hit by a runaway driver; he lingered...
Sundquist said the pick "in the long term is probably a mistake." He questioned whether the liberal Dukakis and conservative Bentsen are compatible, and noted that they take differing stances on several major issues. "The first debate ought to be between Bentsen and Dukakis....I don't think there's anything Bentsen can do that will help that much in the South...
Social psychologists use the term "cognitive dissonance" for the anxiety caused when facts conflict with deeply held beliefs. Americans appear to have responded to the cognitive dissonance triggered by the Iranian airbus disaster by stifling both moral responsibility and collective grief. A Washington Post- ABC News poll found that 74% of those surveyed believe that Iran is more to blame than the U.S. for the destruction of Flight 655. Certainly this reaction was compounded by the role that Iran plays in American demonology. Nine years of demonstrators in Tehran chanting "Death to America!" have fueled an emotional climate where...