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Every President-elect transits in his own way, but Clinton's moves so far show that he has studied transitions past, mastering his predecessors' wiser moves and avoiding the dumb ones. Careful to preserve his outsider status, Clinton has updated Jimmy Carter's common-man routine while making overtures to the powerful Georgetown set that Carter foolishly spurned. To preserve control of his nascent Administration, Clinton has said he himself would name not only Cabinet officers but also their aides and the aides of their aides. Like Bush four years ago, Clinton has moved quickly to distinguish himself from...
...with the President himself. She appears confident discussing humanitarian and social issues in such powerful surroundings and invariably wins the rapt attention of Presidents and ministers with a distinctly honest way of speaking and asking questions -- a far cry from her earlier repertoire of girlish smiles and playing dumb...
...Princeton economists found that every additional year of education at any stage increased income an average 16%. If so, expanding the availability of education -- as through the proposed National Service Trust Fund -- is just a smart investment, while the Reagan-era cutbacks may have been penny-wise and dollar-dumb. Liberal? Conservative? Does it matter...
...such a radical step? "We were the only environment that was ready for a complete change. All they needed was a cowboy dumb enough to say he'd do it," says Rock. "America's oldest nameplate is going to become America's newest car company." But Rock is a smart enough cowboy to recognize that his challenge is a tall...
...show gives Leguizamo an actor's tour de force. He plays all six roles, ranging from the piggy schoolboy Miggy to bone-dumb Desert Storm veteran Crazy Willie to their ditsy mother Gladyz, a rare drag part shaped with candor rather than cant. He also depicts a surgically handicapped brother who has been shunted away to an institution; a bleach-blond brother in deep denial about everything from his origins to his sexuality; and the clan patriarch, feared by all the others as an epic bully but visible in the final sequence as just a hollow never-was clinging...