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...Neither candidates nor press believe that the public is really concerned about issues," New York Times columnist Tom Wicker told an audience of 20 in Quincy House last night...
...BODY is twitching. There is new life." The voice over the radio is identified as that of Dave O'Brien, a recently hired columnist for the Boston Herald American. He is doing a radio commercial for the Herald about the reasons that led him away from the weekly Boston Phoenix to the daily, slowly transforming Herald. As Joe Pilati, O'Brien's replacement as the Phoenix's media columnist, wrote in a column this summer, it took guts for the Herald to allow that choice quote to go out over the airwaves. But like it or not, O'Brien...
Charisma? "Not essential," argued Conservative Columnist Patrick Buchanan, 37, a former Nixon speechwriter. "I think Mayor Daley of Chicago would show that." Nor is goodness essential. Buchanan added: "Nobody would deny Mao Tse-tung was a great leader, but I don't think you can say he was a good man in the sense we talk about goodness...
Martin Olav Sabo, 38, speaker of Minnesota's house, had a similar bone to pick: "[Columnist] George Will made a very, very good point in saying that too often our problem with Government is that it is too responsive. It is a sort of Burger King responsiveness: put in your order and we will respond...
...spent this year on Government programs had not been spent. Baffled by the shortfall, Office of Management and Budget officials double-checked their figures and found that $2.5 billion of it was due mainly to accounting quirks That still left $9 billion in unused money and provided ammunition for Columnist Art Buchwald. Plotkin, his fictional, frazzled OMB bureaucrat, worries about how to get rid of the excess money and asks, "Have you ever tried to spend a billion dollars in two months...