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...Clinton owed any lasting debts on Tuesday night, it was certainly not to his party; it was to Newt Gingrich, whose triumph in 1994 reflected more distaste for Clinton's excesses than fervor for Gingrich's cause. In 1992 Clinton tried to turn 43% of the vote into an imperial mandate to rearrange the planets. By the time he was accused of shutting down a runway at Los Angeles airport to get a haircut aboard Air Force One, the story was devastating not because it was true but because it was believable. He had become the Boy Prince...
This is the question facing Harvard's student political groups, who will be refocusing their energies in coming weeks and recovering from the fervor of pre-election activity...
...candidate. Though Dole once grumbled that tax-cutting zealots would never take over the G.O.P., the 1994 congressional elections showed that they at least had to be appeased. As Senate majority leader, Dole embraced the tax reductions called for in Gingrich's Contract with America. But working up a fervor for sweeping tax cuts, rather than accepting them grudgingly, took longer. In April, with the primaries nearly over, Dole's campaign manager, Scott Reed, had an all day meeting with political and economic advisers to discuss a tax-slashing program. Several wanted to come out with one pronto, but Reed...
Waters is a veteran legislator and an unapologetic liberal. Enraged by recent allegations that the CIA might have financed a crack cocaine ring in her district--where poverty and black-on-black gang violence are common--she immediately called for official investigations. Though the congressional majority may regard her fervor with disdain, Waters has overwhelming support at home, where she has never won less than 75% of the vote...
CATHY BOOTH barely had time to glance at the Pacific before she leaped into her new job as West Coast bureau chief with the fervor that has kept colleagues' heads spinning for years. This week her bureau contributed to a typical array of stories, including Bob Dole's last-ditch campaign effort in California, the state's ballot initiative on marijuana, the latest rush of O.J. Simpson revelations and the retooling of the CBS sitcom Ink. Booth, who did standout reporting from Haiti and Cuba while heading TIME's Miami bureau, says of her new turf, "We have every story...