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When asked about his most passionate issue, Bill Bradley will likely answer "race." He's known to quote Toni Morrison and to tell of the day he saw Congress debate the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He says that he'll always ask his political appointees to pay close attention to diversity. He strongly embraces affirmative action...
Clinton is correct to veto the tax break, but Congress seems split on how to work toward compromise. Some would like to see popular parts of the vetoed bill passed individually, while others, looking ahead to the next election, seem to eschew any sort of cooperation...
...criticized for a statement she made saying that some blacks seem willing to "pander to Jews" (Fulani is black). Buchanan, meanwhile, is a virulent protectionist and anti-immigrationist (and ex-Nixon speechwriter) who never met a panderer he didn't like (though not to the Jews ? he once called Congress "Israeli-occupied territory"). Just the fact that Pitchfork Pat can make this type of alliance should warn the Reform party away from...
...Governor Bill Clinton had forced himself on her, and the controversy lasted barely 1 1/2 news cycles. But even as I see the word quagmire forming in my brain, I realize we can't abandon the field. As a former Connecticut state legislator and two-time Democratic nominee for Congress, Niedermeier can probably take care of herself. But there are plenty of women out there with fewer resources who can't. Just last week the women at two Ford Motor Co. plants finally got the firm to acknowledge that life for them had been hellish--that they should no longer...
...international cooperation that while everyone saw it coming, no one knew what to do. As gruesome images piled up in newspapers and popped up on the nightly news, Americans were perplexed and worried. Why wasn't this like Kosovo? they asked in call-in shows and letters to Congress. The White House responded to the growing public anger with strong condemnations of its own. By Friday, President Bill Clinton was saying, "It is now clear that the Indonesian military is aiding and abetting the militia," and called for "an international force to make possible the restoration of security." But presidential...