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Where he was in late February was in trouble. Talk of a brokered convention surfaced as party elders wrung their hands. But Dole's team had astutely built a fire wall in South Carolina. Prudently preparing for the danger they didn't expect but were in fact facing after New Hampshire, they had earlier recruited the players, like former Governor Caroll Campbell, who would on March 2 deliver the Southern state everyone deemed critical to capturing the entire region. After South Carolina, the rest of the primary march was anticlimactic. Grand plans were hatched for the months before the August...
What's more, the notion that tying the dollar to gold is needed to keep inflation low is simply false, mainstream economists say, and makes Forbes' passion almost inexplicable. Ever since Fed chairman Paul Volcker, whom Forbes calls an "obtuse man," wrung double-digit inflation out of the economy in the early 1980s, yearly price increases have averaged 3% to 3.5%. Yet despite this climate, Forbes called on the Treasury Department last year to issue bonds that were indexed to inflation to eliminate this unacceptable risk to principal...
...their sleep, maybe in their dreams. Since the formula is so familiar, they know the trick is to tweak it. Remember Too Beautiful for You, where Gerard Depardieu spurns gorgeous wife Carole Bouquet for dumpy secretary Josiane Balasko? This time writing and directing as well as starring, Balasko has wrung another variation on the old gag. Husband, wife, lesbian interloper. French Twist...
...With tears and prayers and tender hands, Mother and sisters made her ready for the long sleep that pain would never mar again, seeing with grateful eyes the beautiful serenity that soon replaced the pathetic patience that had wrung their hearts so long, and feeling with reverent joy that to their darling death was a benignant angel, not a phantom full of dread...
Halfway through her powerfully affecting novel One True Thing (Random House; 289 pages; $22), Anna Quindlen pauses, swabs her forehead with a bandanna (so the wrung-out reader imagines) and sums up: "Our parents are never people to us, never, they're always character traits, Achilles' heels, dim nightmares, vocal tics, bad noses, hot tears, all handed down and us stuck with them...