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...these problems, the ISS is probably here to stay. In the years the station has been in the works, it has become that rarest of Washington creations, the politically indestructible extravagance. How a project that has sparked so little interest and so much skepticism has taken on such an aura of inevitability is a case study in how good bureaucratic ideas turn bad--and bad ideas stick around. "The only way we're not going to have the station," says Chris Mehl, spokesman for Indiana Representative Tim Roemer, "is if pieces fall...
...from identifying with old-fashioned liberalism. And if there's anything you and I could do with a healthy dose of in the public eye, it's integrity. You have your shady fundraising, I have my spin-doctors on the public payroll. What we both need is an aura of idealism that a return to traditional liberal values can provide...
...Camp David" was once a code word for Mideast peace breakthroughs, and President Clinton may be hoping that its aura rubs off on Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak when he hosts a make-or-break summit there next week. But while the historic 1977 meeting between President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menahem Begin may have produced an Israeli-Egyptian peace deal that became the crowning achievement of the Carter administration, President Clinton's confab looks like little more than a last-minute Hail Mary pass...
...tracts such as "Let Us Establish More Firmly the Monolithic Ideological System in the Whole Party and Society"). The leader of the hermetically sealed communist holdover had his South Korean counterpart, President Kim Dae Jung, in stitches Wednesday as he spoofed Western media portrayals of his "hermit lifestyle." The aura of mystery created by such portrayals certainly helped the North Korean leader surprise his South Korean guests, first with a wholly unexpected gushy greeting at the airport and then with his wisecracking repartee...
...Democrats, meanwhile, have begun a 10-week television advertising campaign - financed by $25 million in soft money - to "redefine" Al Gore, to bathe him in the aura of American success in the last seven years...