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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mending roads is a model for the Clinton presidency. Mark Penn, half the New York City duo of Penn & Schoen Associates, the President's pollsters, once likened Clinton's popularity to that of a former client, the rumpled, motor-mouthed mayor of New York City, Ed Koch. Koch was elected three times not because voters trusted him or wanted their children to grow up to be like him, asserts Penn, but because he helped make sense of a confusing time. He talked and listened and talked some more. In the latest abc News poll, 73% of voters say having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TROUBLE WITH CHARACTER | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

Late Monday night two weeks ago, I was trying to focus on reading Tocqueville when my computer "eep" ed. I lunged for the mouse and clicked open my new e-mail. I could tell from the subject line--"You are a huge f***ing culturally deprived moron"--that this wasn't just a brainless forward or more propaganda from Clinton-Gore...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Home Sweet Home Page | 10/26/1996 | See Source »

...hours later, my Mac "eep" ed again, signaling the arrival of a second message from St. Louis, bearing the subject line "Gupton, How Can You Be Such A F***ing Dork?" This e-mail, allegedly sent by Brian's roommate Adam, read, in part: "In reading over your resume packed full of things which would make any God-fearing rotarian cum in his pants, I found myself repeatedly drawn back to a single question. Why have you been allowed to live?... You should have been tossed to the wolves the second you thought of mentioning your distinction as an (drumroll...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Home Sweet Home Page | 10/26/1996 | See Source »

This past week, the Veritas forum discussed Christianity at Harvard. As a practicing Christian at the College, I was disturbed to read that organizers and audience members felt the participants in the panel "depict[ed] Christianity very accurately" and that the "same theme" emerged...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Christianity Cannot Be Simply Defined | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

...what they want, then get angry when they don't get it. Republicans get angry at Dole and take it out on Kemp. "A lot of Republicans had already decided this campaign was going down, but at least felt good that we had a strong candidate for 2000," says Ed Rollins, who managed Kemp's 1988 effort. "You'd hear, 'If only we had Jack at the top of the ticket.' You're not hearing that now...But the disappointment level is higher than is really justified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: FROM SAVIOR TO SCAPEGOAT | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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