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...spent most of the first day of his Senate confirmation hearing doing what he does best-being a perfect student. He listened dutifully as Senator Orrin Hatch instructed him on drawing the line against probing questions from Democrats. He nodded with understanding at the dramatic flourishes of Sen. Joseph Biden, who told him that as a Supreme Court justice he might rule on whether microchips could be implanted in people to track them. And when Senator Dianne Feinstein launched an impassioned defense of abortion rights, Roberts focused intently on her even as people were entering and exiting the hearing room...
...conclusion of his remarks, Senator Charles Schumer told Roberts that he could have his vote if he answered questions fully and proved he wasn't a radical. Biden said that without an explanation during the hearing of Robert's past writings, he'd have to vote against him-implying that if he came clean, Roberts could win a yes vote from the Delaware Democrat. One Democratic staffer explained the tactic as playing to Roberts' need to win, in the hopes that the man who has argued and won so many cases in front of the Supreme Court can be lured...
...been surprising. Her enthusiasm for travel has transformed her image from that of a remote presidential consigliere to a glamorous, globe-trotting operator with first-name-only cachet. (A Madrid hairdresser has started offering "the Condi flip.") "She has a little bit of star power," says Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, "which isn't a bad thing to have." But she can also play tough: in Sudan last month, Rice demanded an apology from the Khartoum government after members of her traveling party were manhandled by Sudanese security agents; she got one within an hour. At home, Rice has wrested control...
...display was appreciated by many, but some found it hard not to wonder what will happen after the police go back to their day jobs. On TV, the usual cast of security experts roundly lamented insufficient funds for mass-transit security. Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware vowed to introduce a bill that would add $1.1 billion in new money and "make everybody stand up and be counted on it, goddammit." But without pausing for breath, everyone agreed there is really no way to prevent an attack from happening here. "Surface transportation is a killing ground," says Brian Michael Jenkins...
...trying to distinguish himself from old-line, constituency-centered liberalism, what Kevin Phillips contemptuously calls "reactionary liberalism." That might have served some purpose in 1984. But what is the point now? Carter and Mondale are no more. Kennedy is gone, and even he supports Gramm-Rudman. We are all--Biden, Bradley, Babbitt, Gephardt and Robb--neoliberals now. There are no paleoliberals left, unless Mario Cuomo's principled disinclination to issue ostentatious rejections of the "past" tempts some to make the charge...