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...this campaign Clinton's obfuscations demand greater attention. Bush's lies, which stretch beyond Iran-contra and embrace the continuing distortion of his opponent's record and proposals, play a smaller role in determining our judgment of him; the President has a first-term record voters can consider. Clinton is another matter simply because he has yet to serve. We just don't know if the character flaw his dissembling reveals is a significant indicator of how he would govern or a jumble of white lies the country can safely ignore. So the search for clues continues...
...excerpt from their new book, TIME's White House correspondents say that the President's most important first-term goal was winning a second term...
Though he told friends after his confirmation that he wanted to be out of the spotlight for a while, Thomas' first-term rulings were pugnacious, blunt and, for a new Justice, relatively numerous. He wrote nine opinions for the majority, four concurrences and eight dissents. "Thomas hit the ground running," says University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar. "He's in there mixing...
...will be buried with leaders. I will make them part of the process. I will be listening, listening, listening to their ideas. They will have ideas better than my ideas. In all probability, what we finally do may be their ideas. It will probably be some first-term Congressman who shouldn't have had an idea that good, but it's the best idea, and we take these ideas to the people, present them to the people. The people say let's do it, and now we have a system out of gridlock and a system that works. That...
...Massachusetts first-term Republican Governor William Weld and Democrats in the state legislature are mounting a frontal assault against tenure. Weld wants to allow school principals free rein to make hiring and firing decisions without reference to tenure or job seniority. Weld is also calling for teachers to be recertified every five years after taking competency tests. "This isn't anti-teacher," says Weld. "It's anti-slob teacher...