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...Even Bush's plan to make Title I funds "portable" after three years is too cheap: $1,500 barely covers tuition at some parochial schools and is not enough to test the voucher idea. Little wonder that with all the burdens facing poor schools, word that the G.O.P. front runner wants to take away Title I money feels like another slap. "It irritates us," says Coliseum principal Zoe Jefferson of the pols. "They come up with solutions that sound easy to sell in one-liners...
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...Kennedy, "If his name were Edward Moore, [his] candidacy would be a joke." In this season of George W. Bush, a pleasant enough Governor of modest achievement, one is forced to ask, "If his name were George Walker, would he be a presidential candidate, let alone the runaway front runner for the Republican nomination...
...Francisco. Bell, 37, may aspire to be Willie Brown, but so far all he has is the suits. Bell dropped a cool $4,323 of campaign money on clothes from Saks Fifth Avenue, which does not have a store in Baltimore. He has plummeted from gregarious front runner to press-shy third-place trailer, in part by feebly trying to use racial tactics to slam a white challenger. He told a black crowd to vote for him because "I look like you," which went over as well as Linda Tripp's "I am you" line. But he looked...
...known to roll his eyes when his chief strategist launches into a dissertation on, say, what this race has in common with the election of 1896. But Bush owes his phenomenal political rise--from a novice underdog candidate for Texas Governor in 1994 to the heavily favored G.O.P. front runner for President just five years later--in large part to Rove. On Saturday, when Bush handily won the straw poll, the victory was a validation of a risky campaign plan Rove devised late last year, after Bush won re-election in Texas. The "yellow rose garden" strategy kept Bush...