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What was the hottest topic on the floor of the GOP convention? I was there, and I can give you a hint: It wasn't Colin Powell's looming Cabinet appointment, or George P. Bush's dashing good looks. It wasn't even the dizzying prospect of kicking Al Gore's rump right back to Tennessee...
After a meeting between the large US delegation and the Colombian cabinet, Clinton and Pastrana held a press conference amid the tropical splendor of the government guest house gardens. Clinton defended the assistance program against both U.S. and Latin American critics: "This is not Vietnam, this is not Yankee imperialism," he declared...
...getting carried away. But in times of peace and prosperity, this is what passes for a clarion call. And this is the sort of domestic tinkering - a standards test in every pot! A prescription in every medicine cabinet! - that George W. Bush and Al Gore are offering up in the national TV ad campaigns each launched this week...
Talking about the Rwanda tragedy, Power castigated the U.S. government for not even holding a cabinet-level meeting about the slaughter and also criticized the U.N.'s handling of the crisis...
...senator's Judaism is unusual, to say the least. The possible addition of another Jew to the upper echelons of government hardly seems like news. The Clinton administration in particular has promoted significant numbers of Jews to positions almost as high as the vice presidency: Many of his top Cabinet deputies, like Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin '61, come from Jewish backgrounds. Both of Clinton's appointees to the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer, are Jewish. But hardly anyone focused on their Judaism when these men and women were...