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...Drell, who says that even a tiny 1-kiloton weapon exploding 15 meters deep in rock would spew radioactivity across a wide swath of the planet. Arms-control advocates worry that possessing less catastrophic nuclear weapons would scuttle efforts to stop worldwide proliferation. Said Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, last week: "This Administration seems to be moving toward a military posture in which nuclear weapons are considered just like other weapons." - By Mark Thompson/Washington SERBIA'S WAR WINDFALL SERBIA Old Europe may get the cold shoulder when coveted reconstruction contracts are doled out in post-Saddam Iraq. But Serbian...
...them quite good. But the centerpiece of Gephardt's candidacy--his universal health-care plan--is immense and anachronistic. It offers huge subsidies to large corporations that already offer health insurance to their workers. It mandates that small companies offer health insurance as well. This is a classic Old Democratic plan, pegged to a constituency that is shriveling: the Big America of Rust Belt manufacturing and trade unions. Entrepreneurial America--the immigrant grocers, the hi-tech start-ups in Sun Belt garages, the source of most economic growth--doesn't need the additional burden of finding and securing health plans...
Just a few years ago, Davis was one of the country's more popular Governors. In last year's election, he bucked national trends to lead a Democratic sweep of statewide offices. But now he finds himself with a 24% approval rating, making him the most unpopular Governor in the Field Poll's 55-year history. And he has plenty of company. New York's Republican Governor George Pataki has an approval rating of 43% in the latest Quinnipiac poll, 38 percentage points lower than it was after 9/11. And Pataki is faring better than his neighbors, Democrat James McGreevey...
What they have in common is that optimistic promises from the fat old days are coming back to haunt them. Democrat Gary Locke pledged to be Washington State's "education Governor," but in January tens of thousands of teachers marched on the state capitol to protest his plan to deny them pay increases, and the Washington Education Association has been running ads accusing him of breaking his word to children. The bleak fiscal situation has also meant no honeymoon for the bumper crop of 24 new Governors elected last year...
This week Joe Klein puts the nine announced Democratic candidates for President on the couch and offers a prescription for fixing the party's chronic election woes. From his days covering politics for Rolling Stone, New York, Newsweek and the New Yorker to his best-selling work of fiction--as Anonymous, he wrote Primary Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms...