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With Gingrich too in the wings, the Dole campaign is running scared. "It's the job of the front runner to be disciplined and put the nervousness aside and stay on message," goads Charlie Black, Phil Gramm's general chairman. "But they're panicked and they're overreacting to a lot of things." A peek inside the vast, well-oiled Dole operation shows signs of fear and frustration. Campaign sources say that Dole booted his top field organizer, Jill Hanson, off his campaign plane and narrowed her portfolio in the wake of the disastrous tie with Phil Gramm last August...
That is especially devastating given the resources that Dole, like his opponents Gramm and Lamar Alexander, has been pouring into the Sunshine State in advance of the coming straw poll. Of all promiscuous primary rituals, these polls can do the most to torture front runners: because no real convention delegates are at stake, they are mainly useful for candidates to test the local party organizations. The straw polls only make news when the front runner stumbles--which can include winning by a smaller margin than expected...
...rejection was particularly hard to swallow considering that last year three Ivy League teams were selected, including Ivy runner-up Harvard. UMass knocked the Crimson out of the tourney in the first round...
Jonathan P. Feeney '97, former Campus Life Committee co-chair and the council member who this fall was considered by many to be the front-runner for the council's presidency, announced his resignation last night...
Society's sense of right and wrong has become so distorted that a 14-year-old South African runner tested postive twice for steroid use and was suspended from competition for four years. You can add to the South African case the names of Ben Johnson, Brian Bosworth, Lyle Alzado and Katrin Krabbe, and the picture only becomes more disturbing. The carelessness of risking one's long-term health for short-term gain and the cunning used to avoid detection are not behaviors to be emulated...