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Because influence is not the same as power (see page 80), most of official Washington is not on this list. Nor is this a list of heroes. Colin Powell, a legitimate hero, has been influential in the past and has the potential to be so again, but for now he's taking time off. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan, who to most people is no hero, is busily influencing people. It is also not a list celebrating celebrity. Dennis Rodman is famous, but we'll have to wait for a lot more killer-tomato dye jobs to show up in the N.B.A...
...third-party politics, many local centurions originally attracted to Perot have grown skeptical that he's a suitable candidate. Unfortunately for Lamm, however, many of them now agree with Nicholas Sabatine of Pennsylvania, who as head of the National Patriot Party tried to woo several alternatives to Perot, including Colin Powell and Senator Bill Bradley. "I don't see anyone both willing and viable other than Perot," he concluded after a year...
Protests begin over the choice of Colin L. Powell as Commencement speaker because of his stance on gays in the military...
...pointed arrow in his quiver, and he may prefer to save it until later in the contest. But more immediately, Dole knows it would be quite unwise to make an overhaul of affirmative action a campaign issue as long as he clings to even the slimmest prospect of attracting Colin Powell to the Republican ticket. When the issue came up during a recent Dole strategy session, campaign manager Scott Reed quickly shot it down. A Dole adviser who attended said the Dole camp will not discuss affirmative action anytime soon--and maybe not for a long time...
...personal level, I was relieved to read what Mathews has discovered about the electoral power of height. My father happened to believe strongly that any American boy could grow up to be President, and since I was the nearest American boy at hand, I am someone who, like Colin Powell, has faced a certain amount of presidential pressure...