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Telling one's husband to cut the lawn and seeing it done are two different things. Five days after Elizabeth's suggestion, nothing had changed. That's becoming a Dole campaign pattern--promises without follow-through. (Dole talked about convening some wise elders two months ago but dropped that ball.) This time, it wasn't clear from the family meeting who would select the new broom or carry out this housecleaning. Nor did Dole and his wife discuss any names. Instead something worse happened: news of the Doles' grumbling spread through Republican circles, setting off a round of maneuvering...
...wise father who thus ensures that he is the one who gets to spend all his time playing games...
...Sullivan. Last week Peretz interviewed Joseph Nocera, of the Washington Monthly and FORTUNE. He joins a list of semifamous, boldface names such as Stephanopoulos and Eric Breindel (editorial-page editor of the New York Post and significant other of Lally Weymouth, daughter of Washington Post matriarch Katharine Graham); and wise guys like Michael Lewis, who filed fascinating dispatches from the campaign trail, including information on his own body odor; and Jacob Weisberg, probably the most brilliant young fogy to pass through the magazine since Michael Kinsley; and Mickey Kaus, author of a book on welfare reform and a worthy Kinsley...
Alas, when Melrose returns in the fall, the writing team will consist of a doctor, a lawyer, a performance artist and a New York City playwright who has worked on Homicide. That's a high-minded bunch. If we must endure more, Melrose would be wise to poach a few writers from the Simpsons...
...Then a wise editor I'll call Howard offered another explanation: Maybe the people who voted for Perot in 1992 but now don't seem to be here were abducted by creatures on flying saucers. That makes an eerie kind of sense. It also makes it more difficult to avoid panic...