(posted Monday, Aug. 12) Time and Newsweek publish mirror-image Dole/Kemp covers. Both magazines conclude that Kemp--though undisciplined, verbose, and intellectually insecure--will boost the GOP ticket with his optimism and energy. Both magazines profile Dole. Time doesn't find anything new to say: Dole's war injuries made him a loner. Newsweek, always eager for novelty, does: Dole's character owes more to the 1970s (when he really learned politics) than the 1940s. Time writes a history of the conservative movement, while Newsweek fills out its bulkier cover package with articles on Gingrich's failures and GOP moderates' wimpiness, columns on Dole's bad tax proposal and Kemp's problems in California, and a photo gallery of Republicans (conclusion: conservatives are less photogenic than Olympians).
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Both magazines gush over the Mars rock. And Time tells the story of a neo-Nazi who gave up white supremacy.