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ROSS PEROT Hulk Hogan is running for President in 2000. That's going to really splinter the crazy vote...
Your article on wrestler Jesse Ventura's election as Governor of Minnesota [ELECTION REPORT, Nov. 16] made me question what goes through people's minds when they vote. Has politics become so corrupt that a man with hardly any position on political issues can run for office and stand a chance of winning? EILEEN KELLY Bethpage...
Ventura has energized this state. Not only did he bring out a lot of young people to vote, he has also inspired the rest of the population as well--at least those who are fed up with "politics as usual." And no attention has been given nationally to his running mate, Mae Schunk, a white-haired elementary school teacher. She is 64 years old and Ventura's point person on education. What a combo! DOREEN B. RENTZ St. Paul, Minn...
...have never even registered to vote. Then I read in TIME what was going on in Minnesota. For the first time in my life, I tuned in to election results, and cheered all the way for Jesse Ventura! I do believe I will now register to vote, as I am confident that this is an indication of things to come. I want to be prepared to vote for the first real American who comes along in Illinois. JIM ENGELMAN Champaign...
...deficit financing to spend our way out of recessions, had tremendous influence over economic policy through the Depression and in the years after World War II. Although his name is back in vogue as many nations cope with the most serious economic crisis since the Depression, my own vote for economist of the century goes to Milton Friedman, whose books, including Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose (written with his wife Rose), articulate the importance of free markets and the dangers of undue government intervention. Our list, recognizing only 20 people, is by definition subjective, especially since we sought...