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...same can be said of the impassioned, impugned House managers, who, whatever the merits of their case, put a lie to the assumption that all politicians are driven solely by polls and survival instincts. One could wonder where their compass pointed, but no one mistook it for a weather vane. Henry Hyde argued that "there's no political profit in this. A President Gore would not be helpful to the Republican Party." But when Hyde faced the Senators, he challenged them to larger purposes: "I have always believed that there are issues of transcendent importance that you have...
...Some colleges guide their students down clear-cut paths; Harvard leaves theirs in the middle of a forest without a compass and sees if they can survive long enough to find their ways out. By contrast, Bay State College trains students in fashion, business and hospitality and tourism. It creates future travel agents and flight attendants. There is hope for expanding one's horizons beyond the Sanders/Sever bubble-for those willing to take the weight and pay the rate...
...balmy winter's night in Nassau, the Bahamas, Sean ("Puffy") Combs kicks back in an office at Compass Point Studios. Dressed down in a polo shirt, Gucci slippers and a glittering diamond ear stud, he is taking a break from recording his new album, Forever, to explain the world according to Puffy. "Kids don't want to be like Mike anymore," he says, referring to a certain recently retired athlete. "Their heroes are rappers. In five years if Master P and I endorse a presidential candidate, we could turn an election. Hip-hop is that deep...
Still, while most participants of the counterrally were affiliated with Republican groups oncampus, others said they simply held a strongmoral compass...
...that subject barely surfaces in the daily yin and yang of the campaign. The more interesting story is that while Murray and Smith are both somewhat offbeat, they are polar opposites politically. And at a time in which President Clinton has broken the needle on the country's moral compass, we're about to find out whether one of the nation's largest groups of independent-minded voters goes for the moderate suburban mom who speaks softly or the religious-right grandma who carries a big stick...