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...candidate distinct from her husband. At first, her advisers were worried that doing so would lead to a spate of "rift" articles of the kind that have been chronicling tensions between Al Gore and the President. But Hillary and her team believe it is most important to ever-so-gingerly demonstrate that she is not his policy clone. (When she considered running for Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Morris has said, his polling indicated that voters would see her as a "stand-in" for Bill. She won't let that happen this time.) And so last week Hillary began opening...
Rudy is more admired than loved, but he doesn't much care. "It would be nice," he says of being liked, "but it's better to do the right thing, prove the city is manageable, so no one can ever say it isn't again." He's rightly criticized for tolerating police excesses, but with crime down and jobs up, Wall Street gushing and Times Square as clean as Fantasyland, he gets away with it. Because of the Catch-22 of First Ladies, Hillary doesn't have much of a record to tout. She can't take credit for exercising...
What happens when conservatives die and go to heaven, and discover they may not like it there after all? Surely this moment in American history is as close to paradise as conservatives could ever have dreamed. The budget is not just balanced; it is running a surplus so big that it could total $6 trillion over the next 15 years. A Democratic President travels to the poorest corners of the country, such a convert to the miracles of private enterprise that he brings with him not a bushel of federal promises but a bunch of business leaders whom...
...make matters worse, Clinton got everywhere first, grabbed all the good seats. He embraced the Republican plan to lock the future Social Security surpluses away to pay down the debt, while also talking tax cuts and the largest expansion ever in Medicare. He has proposed a $156 billion "Children and Education Trust Fund" as well as new retirement-savings accounts. It's almost enough to make the budget hawks wish for recession...
...recalls, "that you went either into the Spetsnaz or into prison." They had something else in common, veterans say: though often unsophisticated, they were usually very bright. Volodya, a well-educated officer who commanded a Spetsnaz unit, remembers his men as "some of the most intelligent people I have ever known...