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Politicians are the only folks who practice resume deflation - the price of regaining political virginity. Bowles doesn't trumpet his presidential service, even though he won bipartisan praise for getting a balanced budget and steadying the ship of state during Monicagate. The closest he has come to playing the inside...
At a breakfast with Bowles in Raleigh, I wonder if the race is between Stiff and Stiffer. Bowles, 57, who dresses and speaks like the banker he was, stresses Dole's opposition in 1989 to an increase in the minimum wage. In a state chock-full of seniors who didn...
Bowles, who trails Dole by just 4 points, wants to hash out their differences inas many as eight debates. She wants fewer. So far, they have agreed on one, on the night the World Series opens.
On the issues, the battle lines are clearly drawn. Bowles supported the Family and Medical Leave Act (Dole opposed it, though she now says it has value); he's pro-choice (she's pro-life); he's for coverage of prescription drugs (she's for some coverage); he supports the...
Of course, Bowles could wear the pink suit and still not flank her on gender. Women greet the Harvard Law grad and former Secretary of both Labor and Transportation like a rock star. By hiding a steel magnolia under a sweet one, she puts powerful men at ease while racing...