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...hard to find a Bush photo shot without minorities in the background. Last month Bush said apologetically to the N.A.A.C.P., "The party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle of Lincoln...
Bush points out that he is willing to buck the N.R.A. He supports background checks at gun shows, the ban on automatic weapons and increasing the minimum age for owning a handgun from...
TIME: When did you decide to distance yourself from this background...
That Shattuck is once again filling Daly's shoes is "totally coincidental," said Paul G. Kirk, Jr. '60, who chaired the committee that chose Shattuck, though the background the two men gained in community work at Harvard was key in each appointment...
...like the fattest casts of all. "Le Bec-Fin, please," I told the Bell Atlantic operator. (Quick bit of background: Le Bec-Fin is Georges Perrier's legendary hotspot, a Philadelphia institution. Often mentioned in surveys as the best restaurant in America - bar none - it had been booked solid for days, primarily by GOP lobbyists, governors and congressmen...