Word: bushed
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...years of public service as the most gifted legislative problem solver of his generation, only to be scorched by Forbes ads labeling him a "Washington insider," the guy who calls Gomorrah home. For Dole, it is a painful reprise of 1988, when he was beaten back by George Bush, another patrician playing the populist and making dubious promises about taxes. "Dole spent 35 years on the public payroll and became a multimillionaire," Forbes teases lethally in Iowa. "But I won't use the class-warfare argument against him." A tough, genial and private man, Steve Forbes has surely known...
Johnson also organized a worldwide touring basketball company to raise money and consciousness in the fight against AIDS. There are some critics who say Johnson hasn't done enough in that regard, citing his attendance at only two meetings of the AIDS commission to which President Bush appointed him. But because of his high profile and charisma, and because of his own admission that he engaged in numerous unprotected sexual encounters, Johnson has probably done as much to educate the public about AIDS as anybody...
...search of the perfect barbecue and his compassionate reportage of small-town America have appeared in the New Yorker, where he is a staff writer, in a syndicated newspaper column and in the Nation, to which he contributes a weekly poem (a genre he took up during the Bush Administration when the phrase "If you knew what John Sununu" came to him in an inspired flash). His 19th book, Messages from My Father, is to be published this spring...
Mounted at the front of the Forbes bus is a small sign that reads WELCOME ABOARD ASPHALT ONE. COMMANDER JOHN L. "JOHNNY" WILLIAMS. Next to the sign is a small bulletin board with tacked-on Polaroids of a shirt-sleeved George Bush sitting on the bus's banquette reading the newspaper. The Bush-Quayle campaign rented the 22-year-old motor coach in 1988 and 1992. The bus itself is on the tatty side ("It has 2.4 million miles on it," boasts Commander Johnny), but Forbes doesn't seem to notice. When the bus halts outside Atlantic, Iowa...
...first began the moment her husband was elected and the public realized this was no Barbara Bush. Hillary Rodham Clinton has revolutionized the role of the First Lady into one which makes use of the word "lady" seem very politically incorrect. While legal malpractice and financial corruption are indeed condemnable behavior, asserting oneself as an intelligent, controlled and determined woman is not. One must be careful not to confuse Hillary Clinton's "unfeminine," agressive nature with a complete usurpation of her husband's power. We must not condemn her simply for having a greater influence over her husband than...