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...better than an amusement park. The Angels had built stands and converted the old high school park into a real ballfield, but the close, low stands made it possible to chat with players...
Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared last Thursday to be taking it easy. Her office announced that she had only one meeting planned -- with five female Senators to discuss health care. What her aides neglected to mention, however, was that before that session Hillary had a 45-minute chat with Representative Ron Wyden about the "core benefits" package that Oregon law guarantees its eligible residents. Then came an hourlong chat with Senator Jay Rockefeller, Representative Sonny Montgomery and others about how best to integrate the nation's $14 billion veterans' hospital system into a new national health-care framework. Next she tackled...
...vote, Clinton invited Exon to the White House for a rare, ! hour-long chat over coffee in the Oval Office. A pipe smoker, Exon wasn't allowed to light up in the White House. But Clinton listened quietly while his guest talked, and encouraged him to spell out alternative cuts in spending, explaining that "nothing is locked in concrete." The next day, Exon voted for the extension...
Long-closed doors in the cavernous Old Executive Office Building are now open all day long, and doors connecting separate offices have been pried open. For the first time in years, people congregate in the halls to chat, turning the corridors into something akin to a high school between classes. The West Wing of the White House has been harder to change, since it is organized for "fat old men and their secretaries," as a Clinton aide put it. Last month Clinton asked about tearing down walls to make his horizontal management style work better, but was told it couldn...
There is little in Preparing for the Twenty-First Century that will surprise a faithful reader of newspaper op-ed pages or a regular viewer of public- television chat shows. Yet once again Kennedy may resonate perfectly with the national psyche; his concern for the environment, education and the economy mirrors the visionary world view of the incoming Clinton Administration. Not a cheerleader by nature, Kennedy makes scant secret of his skepticism: "In the unlikely event that government and societies do decide to transform themselves, we ought to recognize that our endeavors might have only a marginal effect...