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...TIME BOB DOLE LEARNED THAT HE HAD prostate cancer, he had already mounted two unsuccessful campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination. At first, he assumed that his condition would rule out a third attempt. No one who has had cancer has ever been elected President of the U.S. Then, like so many American men who catch the malignancy in its early stages, Dole found out that his chances of beating it were excellent. His tumor, which doctors removed along with the rest of his prostate five years ago, was quite small and did not seem to have spread...
...both parties next month. House Speaker Newt Gingrich indicated Republicans would remove some of the more controversial provisions to avoid a presidential veto. Republicans are hoping to capitalize on the passage in the upcoming election by contrasting their ability to reform health care with President Clinton's failed attempt at universal health coverage...
...governors have the ear of a private sector that is increasingly worried about mediocre graduates. "The American people have spoken," IBM Chairman Louis Gerstner told the group. "They do not want national standards." Gerstner and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson hosted the two-day meeting, where 41 governors will attempt to agree on higher scholastic standards that states should adopt within two years. Business leaders, in turn, will develop their own strategies, such as requesting high school transcripts from job seekers or establishing partnerships with schools. TIME'S Elizabeth Gleick says critics of the summit, like the National School Boards Association...
Carter makes no attempt to explain the integrity shortage, and one is tempted to attribute this omission to the limits of his own experiential database. Most of his anecdotal examples are drawn from a life lived almost entirely at the Yale School of Law, first as a student and then as a teacher, where the most vexing challenge to integrity seems to be grade inflation. When Carter does peek out briefly into the larger world of buying and selling, wheeling and dealing, he sniffs and retreats in disgust from that cesspool of hopeless mendacity. Advertising, he notes, is not always...
When Iran's official news agency described the suicide bombings in Israel as "divine retribution," the Tehran government, in its current attempt at moderation, went through public hoops to disavow the sentiments and to regret the loss of life. All of which makes a recent round of Iranian diplomacy more than a little embarrassing. Just before the murderous last spate of bombings in Israel, Hasan Habibi, Vice President of Iran, visited Syria for what amounted to a pep rally for Middle East terrorism. Gathered at Iran's embassy in Damascus were the leaders of such Palestinian extremist groups as Hizballah...