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...touch with Ross Perot, all sides were hit with the realization that they are facing a presidential race in which the prospect of one or even several credible independent candidates will have to be factored in, and that some sort of alliance could result in an independent ticket featuring, say, Powell and Bradley...
Quite so. Though evolutionary psychologists would love somehow to visit the ancestral environment, few would buy a one-way ticket. Still, to say we wouldn't want to live in our primitive past isn't to say we can't learn from it. It is, after all, the world in which our currently malfunctioning minds were designed to work like a Swiss watch. And to say we'll decline the Unabomber's invitation somehow to turn the tide of technological history isn't to say technology doesn't have its dark side. We don't have to slavishly emulate...
Besides, without a national figure at the top of the ticket, the new party would lack focus. And Perot has not yet decided on a second run for the presidency. He will not make that decision until he knows how much rapport he has with the likely Republican nominee. That, say insiders, will take about three months. Stay tuned...
...ball, which will cost $18 per ticket for undergraduates, will be held on October 7. Council members said that the ball will be held in the Memorial Hall courtyard in front of the Science Center...
...speeches, Dole takes the age issue in stride. "I'll put Strom Thurmond on the ticket for age balance," he jokes (Senator Thurmond is 92 years old). But Dole's real advantage comes just from showing how hard he can work. When a voter asked Dole in Keene, New Hampshire, earlier this year whether he was simply too old to be President, Dole's reply was almost a dare: "Stick with me for a day and see for yourself...