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...anchors obsessed constantly about the "tightly scripted" event they were forced to endure. Ted Koppel and the Nightline crew got so frustrated they left town. Republican officials grumbled that their TV extravaganza was getting short shrift from the network cameras. (Showcased speakers such as Gerald Ford and Christine Todd Whitman were largely ignored.) Ratings, meanwhile, were catastrophically bad: the combined three-network audience fell 25% from four years ago; just over 12% of the nation's TV homes tuned...
...middle-school boys jailed for leading a brawl. He then founded Brothers Working Together, which he says aims "to help young people realize that they have options beyond the street corner." The program, which offers guidance and tutoring to 60 at-risk students, was lauded by Governor Christine Whitman at the Republican Convention...
...move Dole thought rightly would come back to haunt Republicans. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, leader of another state Dole badly needs in November, enjoyed a brief boost up the list. But Ridge, pro-choice, would infuriate conservative Christians. So would New Jersey's pro-choice Governor Christine Todd Whitman, who opposes a ban on partial-birth abortions. Ohio Governor George Voinovich dropped out of the running early...
...running for President, not accountant in chief. Besides, adds Donald Rumsfeld, a senior policy adviser, the Republican nominee is not talking to economists: "The real audience here is the American people." Rumsfeld figures they are ripe for a debate on taxes. "As we saw with [Governors] Christie Whitman in New Jersey and John Engler in Michigan, it is a debate Republicans can win," he says...
DIED. JAMES WHITMAN MCLAMORE, 70, co-founder of Burger King, who helped develop the Whopper; of cancer; in Coral Gables, Florida...