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MORE PEOPLE are running away from the Presidency than running for it. Mario Cuomo, Sam Nunn, and Howard Baker have all decided not to go for it, even though each of them might have been a strong candidate in a wide-open race...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Avoiding Responsibility in the '80s | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

...only 13 months before voters in Iowa begin to choose convention delegates, and 1987 seems all too short. While Washington wonders whether Ronald Reagan can recover from Iranscam, those who hope to succeed him are organizing for what promises to be the least predictable, most wide-open campaign in at least a generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rushing to An Early Kickoff | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

They take it again, more intensely. "No glottal stop on the 'I,' please," Barber says, breaking in. "I know it's hard." They give him a wide-open "I," then try the hymn again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: Blending Voices | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Yohe spiralled a perfect pass towards the wide-open Connolly, but the senior--who suffered a foot injury in last week's Penn game--couldn't hold on to the ball as it grazed off his fingertips...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Gallivant Past Yale, 24-17 | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...next play, Yohe sent all his receivers streaking down the field, and tossed a beautiful ball to a wide-open Sorbara. Pusateri laid a great block to spring Sorbara, and the senior sprinted untouched into the endzone to give Harvard a 21-17 lead late in the third quarter...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Gallivant Past Yale, 24-17 | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

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