Dodging the Yogic Fliers

摘要

Pat buchanan is outraged that he'll be barred from the debate between Al Gore and George W. Bush if he wins the Reform Party nomination. "If we are excluded," he said recently, "then the American democracy is, in some sense, a fraud." There is, however, one man who's more than willing to debate Pitchfork Pat: John Hagelin, a quiet quantum physicist who champions the power of Transcendental Meditation. Hagelin has emerged as the Reform Party's anti-Pat can didate, and suddenly he seems to have a real chance at snatching the nomina- tion. The party s executive committee demanded last week that Buchanan agree to debate Hagelin.