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...Bear's Place...
...early days of the C.O.D., the Brookliners and their allies ran each other's campaigns, coordinated their movements, agreed on slates to bring their joint efforts to bear for everyone's benefit. Sometimes one would defer to another, as Sumner Kaplan did to Dukakis by opening up his own seat on the legislature for his protege to succeed him in 1963, or when Fran Meaney left another candidate's campaign to help Dukakis. The first break in this code came in 1969 after Dukakis had agreed to run for attorney general against Elliot Richardson while Beryl Cohen, an ally from...
...Kennedy School was from its founding in 1936 rather defensive about its academic legitimacy. Renamed in the '60s, during a time of heady confidence in the application of economic methods to social problems, it stressed the "hard sciences" as a basis for formulating public policy. The students' course evaluations bear the memory of that time, listing the mathematical and statistical skills needed for taking each course. That was a period when game theory was hot, and such games can all be played in the mind. "Field experience" does not make one a theoretician...
Bush conceded that many details of the shootdown "remain unclear." But he hammered away on two points: 1) Iran "must bear a substantial measure of responsibility" because it "allowed a civilian aircraft loaded with | passengers to proceed on a path over a warship engaged in battle" (the Vincennes was fighting with Iranian speedboats); 2) the underlying cause of the tragedy was Iran's insistence on continuing the gulf war against Iraq. Again and again Bush pointed out that Iran has defied U.N. Resolution 598, which calls for a negotiated end to the war, although Iraq has accepted...
While his friends in Oceano, Calif., have been zooming about on bikes and surfboards, Marshall has been taking flying lessons since he was seven. His copilot last week was retired U.S. Navy Flyer Randy ("Duke") Cunningham, 46. A third passenger slipped on board: Marshall's brown teddy bear, named, appropriately enough, Charles Lindbeargh...