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...when, according to former Clinton strategist Dick Morris, she considered running for Arkansas Governor if Bill decided not to stand for re-election.) The simple pleasure she takes in campaigning--probing genuinely serious policy issues; meeting people who regard her with thunderstruck awe, as if she were Joan of Arc in a minivan--may seem banal, but it's crucial to the whole venture. If it weren't fun, she'd pull the plug, but right now that's about as likely as her switching to the G.O.P. She told a group of reporters last Thursday, "It is a different...
...White Knight knows you hate politicians, and that you?ve got good reason to. They trade on your sense that the nation needs rescuing by a hero untainted by the stain of politics-as-usual ?- think Joan of Arc meets "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." The quintessential White Knight is the "Man on the White Horse," who quits a successful military career (or professional sports or show business, in less compelling versions) for politics. The White Knight?s secret is to always appear unlike "the rest of them," forced by patriotic duty to enter politics and save the nation from...
...conspicuous sign of social progress that the Holden Caulfields of 1999 can be "cured" with the aid of Prozac & Co., as discussed by Walter Kirn in "The Danger of Suppressing Sadness" [VIEWPOINT, May 31]. It is a shame that Joan of Arc in her benighted state could not have similarly been "cured." Unproductive individuals hostile to mainstream society, ranging from Socrates to Emerson, could have been chemically corrected for their own good to better adhere to the norm. If everyone conformed, schools could successfully be made up of "productive" students who effectively stick with traditional studies and perhaps make...
...French museums and historical sites, including the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe, closed because of a strike...
...hard today not to sigh at the ardor of her hope in what voting could achieve, not to be amazed at the confidence she showed in political reform. But heroism looks to the future, and heroes hold to their faith. Joan of Arc was the suffragists' mascot, Boadicea their goddess, and Mrs. Pankhurst the true inheritor of the armed maidens of heroic legend...