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...fashionably rumpled Adler, 62, remains one of Sharon's closest friends and most trusted advisers. They met almost 30 years ago, when Adler worked on a campaign for Sharon's Shlomzion party, which later merged with Likud. Adler's politics are centrist--"I'm a 2.6," he says--but he works with Sharon out of admiration for his friend. Every two weeks, Adler spends a weekend morning at Sharon's ranch, chatting and eating with the family. The two men also speak by phone several times a week, often about soccer, not politics...
...President. And while I'd love to see someone confront, and defeat, the free-range haters on the right, the last thing we need is a campaign that would polarize the nation even more. Indeed, we could use the exact opposite-a candidate who would inspire America's centrist majority to rise up against the extreme special interests in both parties...
...plan as well-- pointing out repeatedly, for example, that the personal accounts would be "voluntary," to reassure future retirees that they wouldn't be forced into an unpredictable stock market. And despite the early bad reviews, Bush aides insist that his scheme for reducing benefits is the sort of centrist approach that should win support. "If there was ever a Third Way idea that Bill Clinton would have endorsed," says an aide, "this is it." --By John F. Dickerson
...students have a different focus. "Everybody just wants to get a job," says Second-Year Student Sheila Maith. "I don't think anybody has a commitment to being on one side or the other as much as the faculty does." As for the bulk of the faculty, the "mushy centrist types," as one professor describes himself, they celebrate the clash of new ideas, though sometimes wearily these days. Notes Professor Laurence Tribe: "I especially disagree with the rigidity, orthodoxy and intolerance that both extremes display toward those who are not part of their camp." It may be remembered, however, that...
They predicted that Hagel will choose Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney as his vice presidential candidate in a race against Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana and his running mate, former Virginia Governor Mark Warner. The students said Bayh’s centrist message will help him secure the Democratic nomination...