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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fourteen years after his first, failed presidential bid, Gephardt, 61, looks remarkably like the brash young candidate he was then. His hair may be thinner, his jaw a bit thicker, but he still looks perpetually fresh-especially for a candidate many are ready to write off as shopworn. But he's been ignored in the buzz over new Democratic faces like Senators John Edwards and John Kerry. Like Bob Dole before him, Gephardt is finding it is hard to shape a bold presidential vision when his day job keeps him immersed in legislative minutiae. His passion doesn't come across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dick Gephardt Wants to Win Back the House | 8/17/2002 | See Source »

...blur the differences on many other issues, from education to prescription drugs. So the Democrats, observes political consultant Rachel Gorlin, have "got to put something on the table." Gephardt agrees. His top aides began strategizing on a splashy list of bold policy promises last week, something like the brash Contract with America, which Newt Gingrich and the Republican candidates rode to victory in 1994. But many Democrats, particularly in rural districts where so many of the swing races are being fought, are resisting anything that ties them too closely to a national party that veers left of where most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dick Gephardt Wants to Win Back the House | 8/17/2002 | See Source »

...like Elaine's, and in the counterterrorism world. Since 1995, when he helped coordinate the arrest in Pakistan of Ramzi Yousef, the man responsible for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, O'Neill had been one of the FBI's leading figures in the fight against terrorism. Brash, slick and ambitious, he had spent the late 1990s working closely with Clarke and the handful of other top officials for whom bin Laden had become an obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Had A Plan | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...Indonesia, the trial was a test of reformasi, or the reforming of Suharto-era corruption. But Tommy's four-month trial sometimes veered into farce. At one point, his lawyer was accused of bribing witnesses in the trial and had to spend two weeks in jail. Tommy himself was brash and sarcastic throughout, calling in sick on several occasions and boasting at one point that he stayed out of jail through "coordination with law enforcers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throwing the Book at a Suharto | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

CONVICTED. VINCENT (BUDDY) CIANCI JR., 61, the brash mayor of Providence, R.I., credited with revitalizing the city's downtown; on a single count of racketeering following charges that he solicited bribes in exchange for city jobs and political favors; in Providence. Cianci was acquitted of 11 other charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 8, 2002 | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

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