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...WINNERS] ROSS PEROT He can still sting! Dole conjures up the nearly forgotten Texan, only to be called weird...
Gephardt also has sought to diffuse power by spreading it around. As many as 50 Democrats meet daily with him to plan both strategy and policy, and he has put some of the caucus' most conservative members in critical positions. Only weeks after the election, he recruited Texan Chet Edwards to take charge of part of his vote-counting operation; Edwards himself would later vote for three-quarters of Gingrich's Contract with America. And when it came to developing anticrime policy for the caucus, Gephardt turned not to Conyers but to Bart Stupak of Michigan, an ardent...
...example, when criticizing his opponents' budget proposals, the folksy Texan, astride the stepladder conveniently located behind his lectern, might squeal witty down-home aphorisms such as: "Now, you wouldn't build an outhouse like that, would you?" or "Everybody knows why a hound dog's afraid of fire ants...
Johnson came up with the idea of the Danger Zone four years ago, after food poisoning took him out of the Barcelona Olympics. He felt he needed to psychically bridge the gap between the 400 and the 200. Even coach Hart, a folksy Texan who prefers to sit at the halfway mark of a race so he can time Michael's split, goes along with the transition, filling the sprinter's head with tough and fast imagery in the days between the two races. Agent Hunt and Johnson had hoped to promote their Danger Zone line of merchandise last week...
Among the men, Jeff Rouse, 26, a Stanford graduate, struck gold in the 100-m backstroke--a medal that had eluded him in Barcelona--and rejoiced that he could no longer be called a choker. Brad Bridgewater, a 23-year-old Texan, won the 200-m backstroke; and Tom Dolan, the Michigan star whose struggle with asthma has made him one of the Games' heroes, captured a gold in the 400-m individual medley, even as his lungs seized up at the finish. Exhausted, he failed to medal in two other races. "My body just gave out," he said...