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...conservative backlash that transgression would occasion. When the conservative authorities banned further street demonstrations, Khatami dutifully fell in line and condemned any attempt to break the law and create social upheaval. In fact, five days earlier, it was Khameini who had been forced to condemn some of his most ardent supporters, who had mounted a bloody raid on protesters at a Tehran University dormitory. Both sides, then, recognize the need to maintain a balance. And despite the disappointment of many democracy-minded students over Khatami?s condemnation, he and the students continue to share the same goals. "Iran?s students...
...were of a mind for some degree of ardent physical contact,...a car was much to be desired," Snook says...
...ironic that Clinton, who has always been an ardent proponent of campaign-finance reform, would stoop so low as to take money--and plenty of it--from an illegal source. The number one rule in campaign finance regulation is, after all, "do not take money from foreign governments...
Even his admirers can find inconsistencies between the moral imperatives he embraces in places like Kosovo and the means he is willing to employ to reach them. Gore was a leading advocate of the air war but one of the loudest voices against ground troops. Says an ardent if puzzled supporter, New Republic editor in chief Martin Peretz: "He puts himself into [Clinton's] policy even though I suspect his policy would have been rather different. He would have been earlier and stronger...
...course, the Dole campaign couldn't have been happier. "After the coverage we got for that," says an adviser, "I say boo us some more." Annoying ardent primary voters isn't necessarily the losing strategy that it appears to be. Dole is figuring that the folks who were booing were the ones who would vote for Pat Buchanan or Dan Quayle anyway, and so she's bucking the time-honored tradition of running to the right in the primaries and lurching back to the center in the general election. Her calculation involves some new math, based on the belief that...