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Then one day I put into print a glaring error about Perot. I was holding forth on one of the more devastating imbecilities of the Reagan era, the abolition of the progressive income tax in favor of a two-tier flat tax rate. I ended this screed by observing, "And so you see, if you make more than $17,500 a year, you will not be in exactly the same tax bracket as H. Ross Perot." And then, because my high school English teacher taught me to write balanced sentences, I added, comma, "who makes more than $1 million...
This year, Penn and NU are still at the top. Harvard, Cornell and Navy represent the second tier, but all five teams have a legitimate shot to win the national championship...
Give Pat Buchanan this much: he has propelled himself out of the Crossfire thunderdome and into the first tier of G.O.P. hopefuls for 1996. He has jerked a nervous President hard to starboard and roused the Bush-Quayle campaign from groggy complacency. And he has singlehandedly destroyed the incipient threat Bush faced from Louisiana's David Duke. Not bad for 13 weeks' work...
Discounted by the media with the two-word epithet "Governor Moonbeam," Brown was relegated to the second tier from the start. He doesn't have wellpaid publicists, speech writers or pollsters. With only seven paid people and all the rest volunteers--unheard of in a national campaign--he managed to outlast many rivals...
That is the metaphysical quest that guides this right-wing crusader. Though he claims he has not yet thought about seeking the presidency in 1996, this year's campaign has thrust him into the top tier of contenders, along with Dan Quayle, Jack Kemp and Texas Senator Phil Gramm. It has also exposed the historic rift between Republican moderates and conservatives, long bound together by the fight against communism. With the cold war over, the G.O.P. is awakening to the fact that the new world order may threaten the quarter- century Republican domination of the White House...