Nation: In Front, but for How Long?

Even in the era of the perpetual presidential campaign, 34 months before election is too early for a formal announcement of candidacy. But it is not too soon to...

Gary Hart Comes Out

Here's an unlikely bit of news for an election year: politically, Gary Hart is dead, but Che Guevara isn't. O.K., so it's a little more complicated than that...

The Ghost Of Gary Past

From the moment Gary Hart punctuated his withdrawal speech last May with a defiant "Hell, no!," the Democratic Party should have seen it coming. Why would Hart...

Campaign Portrait,Gary Hart: Winning Hearts Through Minds

Though he nearly won the Democratic nomination in 1984, former Colorado Senator Gary Hart remains an enigma to many. This is the second in a series of profiles...

The Loneliest Long-Distance Runner

Gary Hart's ritual declaration of presidential candidacy had been foreordained ever since he promised the 1984 Democratic Convention, "This is one Hart you will...

I'M Not a Fool

His legs stretched out in a restaurant booth, Gary Hart looked tired but pleased with himself. He had found private life for seven months unbearable, he said...

The Man Who Wears No Label

With his hybrid ideology, Gary Hart resists classification Gary Hart embodies a lot of contradictions, and he knows it. He casts himself as the political...

Campaign Journal The One Who Can't Win

Perhaps it was just coincidence that the B-grade thriller Return of the Living Dead was playing at the only movie house in Ottawa, Kans., when Gary Hart came...

Testing the Front-Runner Jinx

After Mandate bowls over Illinois, Hart needs a win in New York In The Godfather, it was the severed head of a horse placed at the foot of the bed. In Treasure...

Just What Is He Up To?

Where once penitents donned hair shirts, now they appear with their hands clenched, facing Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline. So it was last week with Gary Hart, as...