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...rise is also the story of a single-minded candidate with a strong sense of message, an indefatigable will and an intuition for the irrational in politics. He is, as adviser Harold Ickes says, "his own campaign manager." He deserves credit for wise decisions such as sticking with his centrist economic program rather than shifting to a more traditionally liberal appeal, and also deserves blame for blunders such as rejecting his aides' advice to call a let-it-all-hang-out press conference to defuse the issue of how he escaped the Vietnam draft. Clinton had many chances to blow...
...conflict between sympathizers of theCoalition for Civil Rights, which represents sixminority student groups and the Women's LawCouncil, and more centrist students, is both aproduct of last semester's bitter controversy overfaculty diversity and a preview of challenges tocome...
...years since the Bahamas gained independence from Britain, Lynden O. Pindling has been the only Prime Minister. But trouble in the economy, including a decline in tourism -- the archipelago's main industry -- ended all that. Challenger Hubert Ingraham, a market-oriented centrist, won 31 seats in the 49-member Parliament and the right to form a new government...
...saying, Rabin sought to prepare his people for meaningful negotiations aimed at establishing Palestinian self-rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. For the first time in a decade, a government exists that appears able to deliver such a deal. Rabin had originally pledged to form a centrist administration, but having failed to attract the ultra-nationalist Tzomet party into his coalition, he wound up with a left-leaning bloc, the most dovish in Israel's history. Labor's major alignment partner is Meretz, a constellation of peacenik organizations that favors allowing the Palestinians to decide their...
...lack of balance. Jesse Jackson mixed metaphors to complain that they were "cut from the same stripes," and Republican National Chairman Rich Bond sneered that the Democrats have "written off the rest of the country." Gore, however, does add some strengths to the ticket besides reinforcing its generational and centrist appeal. Like Clinton, he is an adroit balancer: he voted for the Persian Gulf war but maintained party credentials by vigorously defending the patriotism of the many more congressional Democrats who did not. Work on the Senate Armed Services Committee has given him expertise in foreign affairs and arms control...