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Students mingled with their friends in the MAC Quad, drawing near the stage to hear partisan rhetoric from two Republicans--Susan Roosevelt Weld and national convention spokesperson Mark Merritt--and five Democrats, including Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos and U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich...
...school could be a life saver. But vouchers provide opportunity for just a few of them while siphoning off tax dollars from the public system inflicted on the rest. "Just 5,000 out of 70,000 kids may be lucky enough to get a voucher," says Cleveland city councilman Roosevelt Coats. "Why should 5,000 benefit at the expense of 65,000?" The bleak answer comes from another city-council member, Fannie Lewis: "You save what...
...Ross Perot did not already have an uphill battle, he chose a bearded vice-presidential nominee. It's been nearly 90 years since America has had a bewhiskered or stubbly-faced Vice President. Indiana Senator Charles Fairbanks served four years as Teddy Roosevelt's Veep. When he attempted to reclaim the office as Charles Evans Hughes' running mate, the two men lost the 1916 election by a whisker...
Institutionally, however, Perot succeeded. None of the other major third-party candidates of the 20th century--Teddy Roosevelt, Robert LaFollette, George Wallace and John Anderson--came back to run again four years after their first race. The task is too challenging. But Perot did come back, did get on ballots in all 50 states and even renewed some personal credibility late in October, when the sad state of campaign finances and evidence of two-party corruption made him prophetic on yet another issue. More important, the 8% of the national vote Perot drew on Nov. 5 qualifies his Reform Party...
...thesauruses in the search for new synonyms for doleful, dreary and vacuous. Ordinary folks made the classic finger-in-throat gesture, or pitched forward face first into their azalea beds. On the cover of the Nation, presidential history was depicted as a Darwinian descent from the triumphantly upright Franklin Roosevelt on down to an invertebrate Clinton-Dole level just above the primordial scum...