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...Dole had to quit as both majority leader and Senator in order to make the presidential race real to himself. Only by surrendering something he loved could he prove to himself--and to the voters and to Beltway know-it-alls--that there was something he valued even more. Only by giving up everything could he show he was willing to risk everything. As the song goes, now he had nothing left to lose...
...some mainstream credibility. Despite its bumpy start, the show has done that, eliciting a few newsmaking quotes in its first weeks from such guests as Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Executive producer Marty Ryan, who once ran NBC's Today Show, says the program will move outside the Beltway on occasion, in an effort to broaden its appeal. "What we want to do is bring some new people into the tent on Sunday mornings," he says. Fox has also beefed up its political coverage, hiring Emily Rooney, former executive producer of ABC's World News Tonight...
...WORK IN THE FIELD OF DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities, and thought I had seen everything. Your story on the conjoined twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel [MEDICINE, March 25] certainly made me look at my life's problems in a different light. The politicians inside the Beltway could learn a lot from these two bright six-year-old girls. I wish the twins well. ROBERT A. GEBHARDT Plattsburgh, New York...
Then there's the larger question. In a time when many voters love to hate Washington, do you benefit from showing your skills as Beltway Bob? Dole has to wonder: Will cooperating with Clinton make me look weak, like a junior President? And just how do you make a complex legislative agenda sound like a coherent message? Especially when the candidate is more comfortable talking about continuing resolutions and getting a bill out of committee than painting a glowing picture of a rising America. The problem for Dole is that passing legislation during a presidential campaign is not about...
...grin that he planned to pilot the craft himself. This week the tables are turned. Daschle is Clinton's point man on Capitol Hill, and Tumulty is TIME's congressional correspondent--steering us through a bumpy presidential campaign that will be waged, by and large, inside the Beltway...