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...committee, the first step in making a run for the White House. "It's like Economics 101," said Tsongas. "There's an enormous demand for a candidate out there and at the moment I'm the only supply." But Tsongas' monopoly disappeared only two days later, when Governor Douglas Wilder of & Virginia announced that he, too, had registered a 1992 fund-raising group with the Federal Election Commission...
...presidential candidates, Tsongas and Wilder give new meaning to the term underdog. Neither has ready access to big bucks. Tsongas left the Senate six years ago suffering from cancer. He says that he beat the disease. Conquering his image as a cool, cerebral Ivy League lawyer in the Dukakis mold may be just as tough...
...Wilder at least has the benefit of incumbency. Only 15 months ago, he made history by becoming the nation's first black elected Governor. But residual racism will be a problem for him, as will his lack of foreign policy experience, disdain for political organizing and habit of picking quarrels with powerful Democrats just to keep in fighting trim. Some insiders believe that Wilder's real aim is to become the vice-presidential nominee...
...both Tsongas and Wilder could attract support by running against type. Unlike most black Democratic politicians, Wilder has made fiscal austerity his mantra. He heaps scorn on the Democrats' inside-the-Beltway leadership, which he accuses of "strengthening the two-party system -- the party inside Washington and the party of the people outside...
...masterminds behind these syrupy confections bristle at the critical drubbing their shows usually get. Miller, 46, a Milwaukee native, started out as an assistant to director Billy Wilder, then wrote episodes for The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch. Boyett, also 46, grew up in Atlanta, moved to New York City to become a playwright and wound up as a program executive at ABC. They met when Miller was co-producing one of ABC's big hits of the '70s, Happy Days. Boyett later joined Miller (and his then partner Edward Milkis) to produce such shows as Laverne & Shirley, Mork...