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...going with Gorbachev," the Moscow airport ticket clerk says scornfully. "If I had a gun I'd kill him myself." In Russia these days, such remarks are common. The last President of the former Soviet Union is reviled by many of those he once ruled. Free-market liberals disdain his vacillating support for economic reform; Communists and nationalists detest him for his role in ending the empire. No matter. Gorbachev is waging a quixotic race for Russia's presidency and this day is heading 700 miles south of the Kremlin to plead his case in Volgograd...
Even those who disdain the American system admit now their own is badly broken. President Jacques Chirac of France, who hosted a jobs summit last week of the seven rich industrial countries, called for a "third path" between the too cozy welfare state and the "precarious" U.S. labor market. Taking the American approach immediately is simply not an option. "Any political party that tried would run into a cultural wall upholding public service, entitlements, paid vacations and so forth," says Jean-Marie Chevalier, a University of Paris economics professor. "They'd be kicked...
...happens, a presidential candidate dismissing public speaking as so much frippery is the equivalent of someone who wants to make it to the major leagues as a second baseman expressing disdain for the double play. ("If you want a hotdogger, get somebody else.") Public speaking is part...
This isn't simply a campaign problem. Successful Presidents govern through persuasion. The educating skills one needs to win the job are required to conduct it forcefully, which is why the BMW nonevent is so disturbing. Yet it confirms Dole's disdain for the bully pulpit. When he ran in 1988, Dole said, "The press always wants me to have a vision. If I had one, you'd say it was no good. So I've thought about the 'Vision of the Month Club.' I'd have one for spring and one for the fall just for the media...
That might not seem unique in a genre that tries to put a pang in every twang. It's true: misery loves country. But Loveless has a purity, a disdain for emotional compromise, that sets her above the standard ingratiators. Since her early hits (Jealous Bone, I'm That Kind of Girl), her voice and choice of material have matured; she's grown up in public. Another coal miner's daughter, Patty is a cousin of Loretta Lynn's--like about half of the singing South. But her true musical kin is Tammy Wynette, country's calamity queen. Like...