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...Tennant says, the Republicans are able to contest half of the seats in the predominantly Democratic state senate, and 10 more candidates are running for the state House of Representatives than in 1986. Perhaps more significantly, the Republican Party has changed its image from stodgy, Yankee patricians to younger, tougher entrepreneurs. The average age of newly elected members of the Republican State Committee...
...three Forrester children have the same odd feeling: that in spite of strong dreams and hard work they're somehow slipping into an economic backwater; that it will be measurably tougher, if not impossible, to achieve the same life their parents...
...says he was "bloody outraged" by what Bush did with the Pledge of Allegiance and felt that Dukakis should have come out punching. Many operatives think the Democrats still need to take the gloves off in Texas. "These guys," says a county chairman, "have to be a whole lot tougher in rebutting this bull." But Bentsen, for the moment, remains as genteel as a second-generation landowner and as formal as a senatorial gray eminence. He knows that when you have a tough sell, the best thing is to keep calm and make it look easy...
Harvard must now look ahead to tougher competition. The spikers are working on some plays in practice and are especially concerned with building up their offense...
...Harvard is always a big game," Eagle Coach Susanna Kaplan said, "and we always try to get up for it. We figured it would be tougher than it was today...