The Week

■ Another flash from Newsweek: “Passions about this election are running high.”

■ Aren’t election-year romances wonderful? For three years it seemed George Bush could not bring himself to mention Ronald Reagan’s name—not when the Berlin Wall came down, not when the Evil Empire collapsed, not when he recited the roll call of heroes of the cold war in his State of the Union address. Mr. Reagan apparently returned the favor when he forbade press cameras to record the meeting with Mr. Bush at his home in California; a White House wag told us the Reagans look like “hostages” in the stiff, pro-forma photo of the occasion. But as he does battle for the GOP nomination with a belligerent Pat Buchanan, George Bush has started referring to his “friend Ronald Reagan” with notable frequency. Very sweet of you, Peggy.

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■ Another flash from Newsweek: “Passions about this election are running high.”

■ Aren’t election-year romances wonderful? For three years it seemed George Bush could not bring himself to mention Ronald Reagan’s name—not when the Berlin Wall came down, not when the Evil Empire collapsed, not when he recited the roll call of heroes of the cold war in his State of the Union address. Mr. Reagan apparently returned the favor when he forbade press cameras to record the meeting with Mr. Bush at his home in California; a White House wag told us the Reagans look like “hostages” in the stiff, pro-forma photo of the occasion. But as he does battle for the GOP nomination with a belligerent Pat Buchanan, George Bush has started referring to his “friend Ronald Reagan” with notable frequency. Very sweet of you, Peggy.