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...kind of sympathy usually expressed at a feminist rally. But if Reno wants to be the first female Governor of Florida--she is expected to announce this week--this is the kind of "centrist" note she will have to sound in her speeches. Often. On the one hand, since most of Florida's Democratic voters are in liberal South Florida, where Reno lives, the primary is hers to lose. But if her party wants to unseat Republican Governor Jeb Bush in 2002--exacting revenge for last fall's disputed presidential election and dealing a mid-term body blow...
Liberals say that will be harder for the candidate already anointed by centrist Democrats: former Panhandle Congressman Douglas (Pete) Peterson, a former Vietnam prisoner of war who returned to that Southeast Asian country in 1997 as Bill Clinton's U.S. ambassador. Fans tout Peterson as a Democratic John McCain; detractors say he is McCain without the charisma. But Nelson and Florida's senior Senator, Bob Graham, sent top Democratic fund raisers to Hanoi last spring to lure Peterson home. As he and his Vietnamese wife Vi Le were packing in May, Reno broke the blind-siding news that...
...family that stands for liberalism, Kathleen maintains an ideological separation. She is a stalwart of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, an organization Patrick once blasted for "jeopardizing our values." And she supports the death penalty not because it is a deterrent, she explains, but because there are "awful people" who don't "have a right to live...
...second. Paris, a top rival, polled a paltry 18 votes?four behind the other front-runner, Toronto. French politicians immediately acted like sore losers, and pointed to the problems that have dogged China's bid from the start. "I am saddened for Paris, but ashamed for the Olympics," said centrist parliamentarian Alain Madelin, who added that China deserves a gold medal for violating human rights...
...main event will unfold over the next few weeks, as the Conservative Party selects a new leader to replace the hapless William Hague. It should make for great entertainment. The frontrunner, Michael Portillo, has shed his reputation as a right-wing rabble-rouser to become the soothing, centrist voice of Tory moderation. "Our party has to appeal to the whole range of people who live in Britain," Portillo says, a commitment to tolerance that may also remind party members of his admission of a homosexual past. Last week one top Tory said that should disqualify Portillo from the head...