Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush all but said the other candidates, with their instant denials and coy cooperation with the witch-hunts, were taking the easy way out. By answering any and all questions, they imply that nothing is out of bounds, not even questions about rumors of drug use from an unelected press corps that has its own skeletons. His approach was harder to pull off: raise the bar, create a zone of privacy, don't fall into the trap of trying to prove a negative. The problem is that Bush went about his nondisclosure selectively. In a political age when biography...
...relevant to Shastan Cooke. The ninth-grader got to meet the Governor last week in Columbus, Ohio, at the welfare training center where he works. "Do well," the Governor said in a kind of blessing, before telling the crowd that it was time to say "Enough is enough." After Bush left, Cooke was asked whether it would matter if the Governor had ever done drugs. "It would make a difference," said the boy, who knew about what drug use had done to his neighborhood. "That's sending a message that you can do drugs and get away with...
...Reported by James Carney and Michael Duffy/Washington and Dick Thompson with Bush...
...Celebrity. The joke's on the Capitol, because his new job is working as TIME's deputy Washington bureau chief. Cooper will help shape coverage of the 2000 campaign while continuing to write about politics. Fortunately, this will not require complete sobriety. As demonstrated by his piece on George Bush in this week's Notebook section, Cooper is lending the humor he has honed as a stand-up comic. "Matt works in clubs in New York and Washington," says Jim Kelly, deputy managing editor. "The big plus for our readers is that they can enjoy him without springing...
...deceptions aren't equal. On the scale of untruths, from I-love-your-mother's-cooking to I-would-never-hurt-Nicole, George Bush's cuteness about coke ranks pretty low. He's not telling us explicitly that he did drugs as a kid, but, hey, in that 60 Minutes interview, Clinton never said he was a skirt hound either. He just bit his lip and acknowledged "pain in my marriage." When CBS's Steve Kroft tried to pin Clinton on specifics, he demurred, saying that the American people "got" what he meant. Bush is basically winking...