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Bush tried to bond with every lawmaker in Texas. By the time he took office, in January 1995, he had met with nearly all the 181 members of the legislature--"the lege," which convenes every other year--asking about their issues, trying to understand their minds and motives: a solid month of virtuoso schmoozing. "For Bush, everything is personal," says Terral Smith, his legislative chief. "He needs to have the personal relationship before the issue comes up." He dropped in unannounced on legislators, gave them nicknames and bear hugs and backslaps, went to pancake dinners and football games in their...
...work, sleeves rolled up and ready to reverse years of trickle-down social policy, they received some bad news. In the post-cold war world, their new Wall Street buddies informed them, you couldn't pump government money into the economy and watch it spring to life because the bond market, punisher of fiscal indiscipline, would force up interest rates and slam its foot on the brake. Bill Clinton adapted; he cut spending and the deficit, thus handing over the economic reins to Alan Greenspan. Not a bad strategy, except that honest liberals must now admit that inequality is greater...
Mende says the geographic mix of the student body did have some downsides at first, creating a hurdle students had to overcome in order to bond together. But most agree that the students have now become a tight group...
Clayton A. Bond...
Adam Taylor is president of the Harvard chapter of the NAACP. Reynelle Brown and Clayton A. Bond are co-chairs of the Black Student Caucus at the Kennedy School of Government...