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Brookins, who was valedictorian of her class at Boston Latin, said she used to think Harvard was a "cop...
...just in case he started to waffle, the Democrats had built in some safeguards. They insisted, for example, that Daschle and Gephardt sit in on the talks and tend to the party's soul. So Clinton decided to use Gephardt as his bad cop. ''You gotta speak up,'' Clinton told Gephardt during private Democratic strategy sessions. And Gephardt followed through. ''If you're going to talk about tax cuts," he told the Republicans at the table, "let's talk about tax cuts for people who need them...
...comfort may lie in the knowledge that for all the changes Gingrich has wrought and the controversy he has generated, neither Clinton nor Dole can afford to let him expire. A top Dole operative admitted last week that the Senate majority leader needs Newt around to play bad cop, to attack Clinton next year, while Dole poses as presidential, safely above the undisciplined, baby-boom fray. A critically wounded Newt can't perform that mission well. Once just a GOPAC mission, "Newt support" is now a G.O.P. imperative...
...carefully choosing his fields of battle, Gingrich gained enormous leverage over the Senate and the White House. And when necessary, he could still use the freshmen in a good cop--bad cop routine. Early this fall, when Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich were haggling about the budget over the phone, the President told one of his aides that the Speaker wasn't the problem in reaching a deal. "It's not Newt," the President said. "It's all those freshmen he's got to worry about...
...HEAT Who will be prince of this soulless city--Robert De Niro's fastidious criminal or Al Pacino's emotionally erratic cop? In the end it doesn't much matter. Their job is to lend familiar dramatic tonalities to Michael Mann's brilliant, jarring, amoral expansion of and meditation on the violent themes running through postmodernist life...