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...Wednesday morning he was in Portland, Oregon, at a town hall meeting with Al Gore - vice-presidential nominee Joe Lieberman has been putting together his campaign staff for the Labor Day-to-Election Day sprint. And sources tell TIME that Lieberman has named Michael Lewan, who was his administrative assistant from 1989-93, to be his campaign chief-of-staff. Lewan, 49, will take an unpaid leave-of-absence from his Washington lobbying shop, where he has represented several life insurance industry clients, Oracle Corp., BellSouth and others. Lewan will travel with Lieberman, while Tom Nides, the Gore campaign staffer...
...years but by the lifetime of the human spirit," said Franklin Roosevelt. "Democracy," said Woodrow Wilson, "is more than a form of government. It is a form of character." Lincoln: "I hold that while man exists it is his duty to improve not only his own condition but to assist in ameliorating mankind." Lincoln was a supremely corny speaker--at least he would be so judged today. He began a noted speech at a battlefield with references to liberty and the proposition of equality. How hokey...
According to sources close to the Nieman Foundation, Rudenstine did not convene a formal search committee to assist him in the Nieman search, but consulted with a more loosely constructed group of faculty that did not interview the candidates...
...HUPD unit was dispatched to assist a person who had fallen out of a wheelchair...
...Today story, debate rages over whether this newly sloganized "insist and assist" attitude - set the standards and bend over backward helping everybody get through - constitutes a lowering of the bar or an enlightenment of philosophy. In the age of push-button wars and untold desk jobs, isn't the Army just being smart by being patient? Or is a 10 percent failure rate - from serious injury or mental incompatibility, usually - an insult to the supposed test of mettle that boot camp was once supposed...