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...televised campaign advertising, his most effective weapon was an 85-page book in which he spelled out his plan for restoring American competitiveness. To overcome doubts about his health after his long struggle with cancer, some of his TV ads featured footage of Tsongas vigorously doing the butterfly stroke in a swimming pool. He did not seem comfortable firing negative TV spots against Clinton, but he fired them nonetheless. "He began to lose his sense of originality after New Hampshire," says an adviser. "He began to behave like an ordinary politician, which...
Concern that Schneerson might disappoint his devotees was heightened earlier this month when the rebbe suffered a mild stroke. But even the leader's death would not disprove his Messianic potential, argues Steinsaltz, who believes the Redeemer will be mortal, someone who will eventually die and have successors. In the meantime, the rebbe's adherents are praying he will recover in time to bring a happy denouement to the drama they have been so eagerly anticipating...
...just tried to learn as much as I could about hitting from coaches and people I played with during the summer and my three older brothers who are pretty knowledgeable," Mrowka says. "Then I worked hard to improve my stroke...
Edward S. Mason, former dean of the Littauer Graduate School of Public Administration and a professor of economics, died Saturday of a stroke...
...primal, was perfectly articulate. The New Hampshire primary amounted to a cry of anger, disgust and pain that was above everything else a warning to George Bush, a kind of political death threat. New Hampshire's Republicans gave only 53% of their vote to the incumbent President -- a stroke of lese majeste that distantly recalled the 50% that New Hampshire Democrats gave Lyndon Johnson in 1968, when Eugene McCarthy took 42% and helped force L.B.J. to withdraw...