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...slipping a bit. In the latest TIME/CNN poll, conducted after the Iowa nonsense, Dole's share of the vote among likely Republican-primary voters fell seven points, to 35%. But his two closest rivals fell too--Gramm to 9% and Pat Buchanan to 8%. The big winner was "not sure," up nine points to 25%, which may be why Newt Gingrich is again musing about running for President. The Iowa results, the Speaker said last week, reveal a "remarkably open race...
...history of Myanmar, as Burma is now called, resonates with melodrama and tragedy. The heroic battle of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for her nonviolent resistance against the ruling junta, is surely worth a movie. But in Hollywood the problems of one little country--or one big country with little brown people--don't amount to a hill of unsold scripts. The Burmese must have a Caucasian mediator, Laura, whose sufferings illuminate those of the locals...
Freedom, as Flannery O'Connor wrote, cannot be conceived simply. Few could understand this better than Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's chief dissident and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Placed under house arrest by a military junta in 1989, Suu Kyi spent six years confined to her family's deteriorating lakeside bungalow in Rangoon. At any time, she was free to join her husband and two children in London -- knowing that the generals would never allow her back. That was a definition of freedom she refused to accept. When the junta abruptly announced last week that...
...wild card of the Super Tuesday set of elections. On that day Gramm hopes to win his own state of Texas, and Lamar Alexander must finish first in his native Tennessee. But if either is to break out of the pack, he must also beat Dole in Florida, a winner-take-all contest for 98 delegates who represent 5% of the total heading to the national convention. Says Mark Merritt of the Alexander campaign: "Before this thing is over, we'll be airlifting sun block to Lamar in Miami...
...over challenger John Redwood. Major wasted no time in reshuffling his Cabinet to reward loyalists from the center and the left of his party. At issue: Britain's future role in the European Union, which Conservative "Euro-skeptics'' fear will diminish their country's independence. Analysts say the real winner in the leadership contest was the Labour Party--now enjoying a nearly 30-point lead in polls and gaining strength for the general election, which must take place by spring...