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...press conference last Thursday (copies will hit newsstands Sept. 26), and the Waterworld parallel holds. George, it turns out, is pretty decent, by turns knowing and witty. But the question remains: Can a glossy, expensive-looking magazine devoted to profiling the likes of former Democratic National Committee chair David Wilhelm justify the big investment and an initial press run of 500,000 (an optimistic figure that would give George a circulation roughly equal to Details...
...doors of Bonn's new parliament building, and smaller sections of Frankfurt were also overrun. Shipping was suspended entirely along the lower reaches of the Rhine, the world's busiest inland waterway. In Koblenz the river rose to 9.27 m and surrounded the newly restored bronze statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The Emperor's bronze likeness appeared to be riding a sea horse...
...breadth and depth of the Republican victory -- a 52-seat pickup in the House, eight in the Senate, 11 in the Governors' mansions -- stunned Republicans as well as Democrats. Said David Wilhelm, departing chairman of the Democratic National Committee: "We got our butts kicked." Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon had predicted that his party would pick up only 35 seats in the House, but he won his office pool because everyone else bet lower. Leigh Ann Metzger, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, saw 3 p.m. exit-poll results cadged from one of the networks and furtively circulated. Fearing...
There may be a good reason for this, for Marx believed in phrenology Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the German Socialist Party, writes in his Memoirs that when he came to London in the 1860s to join Marx's faction, before he was admitted, Pfander--the official party phrenologist--danced, his fingers around his skull. This was printed in the Kerr edition of Liebknecht's memoirs, but when these were reprinted by Moscow and the International Publishing (the official Communist publishing house in the United States), those passages were omitted without any dots or ellipses to indicate that...
...White House is scrambling to replace Democratic National Committee chairman David Wilhelm with a more effective politician. The postelection contenders and their handicaps: Gerald Baliles -- the former Virginia Governor is a Clinton favorite but may not be flashy enough for TV; Don Fowler -- the savvy South Carolina committeeman appears unthreatening to turf-conscious White House officials; Mike Synar -- the defeated Oklahoma Congressman is aggressive, but can he raise money?; Kathleen Brown -- a proven fund raiser, but California Democrats don't want to reward her for losing their shot at the statehouse; Mack McLarty -- Clinton's kindergarten chum was too nice...