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Soft on crime? Next to being called a politician, that was every candidate's worst fear this season. The desperate need to talk tough gave rise to a clamor for three-strikes-you're-out laws and other stringent penalties. But do those measures have anything to do with what works in the real world? A street-level look suggests that the popular wisdom has it backward...
With the Clintons away on vacation in California and Congress in recess, Washington's political temperature cooled down considerably. Administration officials capitalized on the break to put the clamor of Whitewater behind them and refocus on promoting the President's domestic agenda...
...salad bar items and cereal brands aren't included in the computer's database. Your salad bar and cereal selection is the evolving bequest of your house's erstwhile in habitants. The more your housemates clamor for garbanzo beans, the more garbanzo beans you'll see. The same goes for salad dressings and cereals...
...winning favorable press coverage for his handling of foreign policy. But at every stop he kept hearing that awful word Whitewater to his obvious dismay. Presidential aides had fought to portray criticisms of Whitewater and related deals as partisan Republican sniping. But now nine Democratic Senators had joined the clamor for a special counsel to take an independent look...
Clinton: I think the trick of being in public life in this day and age, when / there is always going to be a lot of clamor and criticism, is to be able to take all this barrage of criticism seriously but not personally. In other words, you have to listen to the people who are criticizing you because they're right sometimes. And Benjamin Franklin said long ago, Our enemies are our friends, for they show us our faults...