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...some other life Jerry Brown must have been born in New York City. Unlike Clinton, he immediately navigated the city's politics with the Zen of a cabdriver weaving his way around potholes. "California is the hurly-burly closest to New York," he explained. He defined his constituency and mauled his opponent. He grafted disaffected strains of labor, minority and environmental blocs with those voters who are simply furious at everything. "Someone like Jerry Brown is the future of politics in this country," says Michael Manza, 31, a New York Stock Exchange clerk...
...support and moments of pin-drop silence among these voters who did not make it onto the '80s gravy train. Although Michigan voters have almost nothing in common with this walking Experiment in Living, the antinuclear former seminarian who has washed lepers with Mother Teresa in India and studied Zen with Buddhists in Japan is showing surprising appeal. As the campaign enters mid-stretch, rank-and-file union members, independents, rainbow-coalition minorities and educated, maverick Democrats are giving the former two-term California Governor a chance to build on his victories in Colorado and Nevada and a virtual...
Even those who doubt that the socially liberal Brown, who practices Zen Buddhism, can capture voters in the 64 percent Catholic state are willing to acknowledge that he could surprise them...
...number...The Indian gurus...The $100 limit on campaign contributions...The turtleneck-and-flannel chic...Zen Buddhism...The visit to Mother Teresa's mission...California...
Full Moon Confucius--a series ofmonologue performances by Zen comedian, DennisDowney. Mobius, 354 Congress St., Boston.Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 13-15, 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb.16, 3 p.m. $7; $5 for students and seniors. Formore information and reservations, call...