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Bill Clinton took a verbal licking, kept on ticking and won by a landslide [ELECTION 96, Nov. 18]. He ran an optimistic campaign focused on the future. Bob Dole ran for the title of Meanest Man in America. The outrage backfired on Dole. Ross Perot ran a super-paranoid blitzkrieg assault. Character assassination and hate politics must not be utilized as tactics to win an election (period). Campaign-finance reform is needed, and campaign-hate reform too. President Clinton will lead America forward into the 21st century with a lot of hope, vision and dreams for a better nation...
...innocent or even progressive, but thoroughly political. Diversity is in vogue wherever the many rule or wherever power belongs to the mediocre. The mediocre many have an interest in denigrating wisdom, virtue and even merit--all severe, undemocratic notions--and in elevating sheer experience, which even the meanest can contribute to and appreciate. While wisdom, virtue and merit are hard to achieve and discern, experience is easy to assert and acquire. Yet because of the superficiality of plain experience, one needs it in great quantity and variety to appear impressive and interesting. So like everything else democratic, the democratic university...
...hero lives in a trailer in a junkyard in Austin, Texas. He's involved in an "abbusive" relationship with his 62-year-old, wheelchair-using "granfather," who may be the meanest man in the world as well as being an extraterrestrial. Walter is charged with caring for the "gristtly old basterd." They share their encampment with 14 junkyard dogs, to which they feed only vegetables: "Granfather thinks it makes them lean & mean ... What it does do is make them skinny with patchy bald spots and crap a lot. Tomatos are a real problem...
...Larry Sanders Show has some rich new material to parody. GARRY SHANDLING, who plays one of the meanest stars on TV, is being accused of being so in real life. Shandling's former girlfriend LINDA DOUCETT is suing the comedian for sexual harassment, claiming she was fired from the show after she broke up with its star last year. The couple lived together for six years, but some reports suggest it was Shandling who split from the former Playboy model. "Mr. Shandling is deeply saddened by these outrageous and false charges," said a spokesman. "Ms. Doucett's attempts to exploit...
...Pentagon likes to say that if its forces are attacked, they will prove themselves the meanest dog in town. That might be true if one armed unit confronts another, but, says Andrew Krepinevich, a retired officer who heads the Defense Budget Project in Washington, the analogy works only for dogfights. "Those who might target U.S. forces," he says, "might compete not as dogs but as fleas." In other words, sniping, ambushes, car bombs and other kinds of terrorism do not offer clear targets for U.S. retaliation...