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Scrapbook Old King Dole There was almost universal dismay-and some glee in other campaigns-in Republican circles last week about Bob Dole's response to Bill Clinton's State of the Union. The...
...My mother met me at the door and she said, 'There's no room for cowards in this house...
...Clinton's book than it is to other people's work...
...So guess who reviewed Owen's book for the New York Times Book Review...
...Boo...
...On the back cover of Clinton pollster Stanley Greenberg's 1995 book, Middle Class Dreams, Luntz tells readers just how frightened he is of his Democratic counterpart: "Stan Greenberg scares the hell out of me...
...I went out, I was, you know, beaten up, knocked around, run back in...
...That's right: Misha Glenny...
...Finally, the inevitable occurred...
...When she was old enough to play outdoors by herself, she could beat up on the neighbors' children, but only if she had to...
...The shorthand for this is the "Clinton crunch," a phrase you'll be hearing a lot more of...
...22 Reading List to list names here-indicating that it was really an easy one...
...A superb novel, published in 1987, about how charitable impulses among the rich-the desire to do the greatest good for the greatest number-can lead do-gooders to ignore the crises that can destroy their own families, their own children...
...Now, we find that there are even more Democrats who frighten Frank...
...This week, no error (we think), but rather two overlooked contemporary novels worthy of finding in a library and giving a read, about strong mothers and their daughters-in honor of the poised and impressive Chelsea Clinton: Their Pride and Joy, by Paul Buttenweiser...
...But we are happy to report that no one has yet figured out the error in the January 29 Reading List...
...You go back out there and deal with this.'" Don't cry for the Little Miss Rodham That Was, though, because according to a 1995 book, she gave as good as she got...
...He just doesn't have a finger on the people's pulse...
...The kids in that neighborhood would beat me up every day," she was quoted as saying...
...She'd get the better of them," explained Mrs...
...Glenny declared that "henceforth nobody can talk authoritatively about the course of this war without engaging [Owen's book] in detail...
...They scare me...
...Meanwhile, Dole is making a not-so-subtle shift in his message, from stressing a balanced budget to focusing on economic growth...
...So get out your old issues and go to it...
...In a spirit of Christian charity, not to say liberal compassion, we hope critics are fairer to Mrs...
...Bratbe's August Picnic, by Jacqueline Wheldon...
...It was Buck...
...Alfonse D'Amato- since her childhood days on the mean streets of Park Ridge, Illinois, a small, upscale suburb 35 miles north of Chicago...
...First, Glenny, in his The Fall of Yugoslavia a couple of years ago, had nothing but kind words for Owen's diplomacy...
...Dole's advisers, especially former Senate aide Robert Lighthizer, are convinced Clinton is vulnerable on the economic issue...
...The obvious question: Would Luntz be willing to admit his "fear" of any Republican competitor...
...He's the best...
...Yes, as you guessed, Rover was not the name of the dog in Call of the Wild...
...not a name gone wrong...
...Rodham in Clinton Confidential...
...Alphonse and Gaston in Bosnia David Owen, the co-author of the famously unimplemented Vance-Owen Peace Plan for Bosnia, has got a good thing going with Misha Glenny, the well-known author/journalist and expert on Bosnia...
...No wonder David Watkins was scared of her...
...I have the highest degree of respect, politically speaking, for Squier, Sheinkopf, Morris, Carville and Doug Schoen...
...From these rare cases we can draw a hopeful conclusion: If the ordinary human environment is so essential for bestowing human intelligence, we should be able to create extraordinary environments to raise it further...
...The first lady told audiences that she's been defending herself from bullies- like Whitewater inquisitor Sen...
...he's got an IV injected into it...
...This view is politically convenient: If nothing can alter intellectual potential, nothing need be offered to those who begin life with fewer resources or in less favorable environments...
...And I'd go running in the house every single day...
...Don't Mess with Hillary Hillary Clinton made a startling admission last week on her book tour...
...Here's a hint: It's a conceptual error, a plot point...
...The source: her own mother...
...From The Bell Curve, p. 410: "Lest anyone doubt that environment matters in the development of intelligence, consider the rare and bizarre cases in which a child is hidden away in a locked room by a demented adult or breaks free of human contact altogether and runs wild...
...Along with reports of polls showing Dole weakening in Iowa and New Hampshire, the question is whether the State of the Union response will be for Dole what the infamous Roger Mudd interview was for Teddy Kennedy in 1979: the unexpected coup de gr?ce for a campaign that seemed to be riding high...
...Published in 1965, this English masterpiece concerns a millionaire female industrialist who gives birth to a modern-day Homer-a daughter who is also a brilliant poet and a clear-eyed critic of her mother...
...We can't wait for Lord Owen's review...
...When she did, she'd go out, arms flailing, eyes closed-and whap...
...Mrs...
...Frank Luntz, the GOP pollster, is frightened...
...The Reading List Too many of you figured out the deliberate error in the Jan...
...Very frightened...
...Thus, Dole will stress the slowing economy under Clinton and also take a page from Pat Buchanan's playbook by blaming Clinton for the middle-class squeeze, wage stagnation, and the loss of manufacturing jobs...
...Next, Owen, in his recently published apologia, Balkan Odyssey, returned the favor by extolling Glenny's book as "the most outstanding account" of the war and "required reading for any serious student...
...This went on for weeks...
...Obviously Dole feels pressure from Steve Forbes, but that's not the only reason for the shift...
...And Speaking of Hillary...
...Clinton] truly has the A-team of political professionals," he said the other week...
...The dismay had little to do with the substance, but much to do with the performance: Dole looked by turns nervous, old, halting, and confused...
...I think they are the best...
...Glenny is now writing another book about the Balkans...
...They'd knock me on the ground, they'd pull the bow out of my hair...
...From It Takes a Village, p. 59: "It has become fashionable in some quarters to assert that intelligence is fixed at birth, part of our genetic makeup that is invulnerable to change, a claim promoted by Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein in their 1994 book The Bell Curve...
...A Democrat...
Vol. 1 • February 1996 • No. 20
