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There is a curmudgeonly line of argument that contends that campaign strategy, like most mystic arts, consists mainly of common sense buttressed by uncommon decisiveness. It is probably also true that Dukakis' July lead in the polls was destined to fade like a hothouse flower. The Massachusetts Governor, after all, is running against the heir to a popular President who is campaigning on peace and prosperity. But even so, it is hard to exaggerate the problems that Sasso inherited when for the second time he took the tiller of the foundering campaign...
...would get one. After he was cut from the national team the next year, he was brusquely informed no more flats were available and continued to reside, apart from his wife of five years and son, in a drab room he shares with another kayaker. That separation is not uncommon, even for two-athlete couples: training is so intense that connubiality is discouraged. Officially an army officer assigned to submarine duty, Oseledetz carries an I.D. card that says his task is "to defend the honor of the Central Army Sports Club." The army sponsors one of the two biggest sports...
...accredited by the American Bar Association, including Chicago, Georgetown and Harvard, have had to search for new deans. Once the capstone of a legal career, the post is now a revolving door, says James P. White, consultant on legal education to the A.B.A. "Twenty years ago, it was not uncommon for a dean to serve 15 or more years," he says. "Now the average deanship is five years or less. It's a much more frenetic...
...luggage. The Prince discovers that even heaps of living cannot convert a slum apartment into a palace. The Prince takes a job as janitor in a fast-food joint and learns that good manners, noble bearing and even heroic action cannot overcome class distinctions. He tries to woo an uncommon commoner (played brightly by Newcomer Shari Headley) without revealing his identity, and encounters resistance from her father, who, since he is Akeem's boss, cannot help mistaking him for a toad...
...this enormous task Sharansky brought uncommon intellectual resources. In the mid-1970s he was best known as a spokesman for Soviet dissidents, especially Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel. But Anatoli Shcharansky (he later adopted his great-grandfather's Hebrew first name and simplified the English spelling of his surname) was also a mathematician, a computer scientist and a chess whiz who had devised a computer program for playing the end game. When he was arrested in 1977, he sought to use the same logic to defeat his KGB opponents, who were preparing to try him as an anti-Soviet...