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...arguments fully four months before the election suggests how clouded Bush's political future has become. The President of late seems more melancholy than usual, flashing with uncharacteristic anger in public, seemingly haunted by unseen furies. At a political fund raiser in Detroit last week, he complained that this "weird, peculiar" political season comprised little more than "endless polls, weird talk shows, crazy groups every Sunday telling you what you think." But less than 48 hours later, Bush himself was appearing live from the Rose Garden on the CBS This Morning show. The network's producers had plucked 125 somewhat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Bush Losing the Numbers Game? | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...veteran Congressman Lee Hamilton, a foreign policy expert regarded as one of the House of Representatives' wisest heads. If the job goes to either man instead of an upstart newcomer like Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford or Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, Clinton will be betting that even in a "weird" political year, more voters value Washington experience than resent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Bush Losing the Numbers Game? | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

Grimm, the rather deranged Old Yeller (I'm referring to the pre-rabies Yeller of course) has done one too many "fire hydrant" jokes for my tastes, but he's weird enough to like. The strip alternates between one shot gags and storylines, the one shot gags often being funnier. A recent "Soup of the Day joke" involving some confusion between they day (Wednesday) and the soup, was stupid, but funny, which is perhaps a good way to summarize the strip...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: What the Heck is This Dilbert? A Neophyte's Guide to the Funnies | 7/10/1992 | See Source »

Most Harvard historians, Williams says, tend to think "we who dig in the ground are some sort of weird antiquarians who love objects...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: WHEN TRASH BECOMES TREASURE | 7/10/1992 | See Source »

Those eager to catch a glimpse into Robb's weird world can find themselves at a rally listening to a fledgling neo-Nazi discuss with a robed Klansman the religious primacy of the white race. A few steps away, a young Kluxer-in- training, his eyes peering out through slits in his hood, explains the history of a camouflaged Klanmobile, a trashed-out Ford Grenada loaded with ham-radio equipment and emblazoned with slogans like WHITE POWER and PRAISE GOD FOR AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White & Wrong | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

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