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...result? Some of the Beltway's most bold-faced names have waded, often blindly, into the fray. Bork's surprising initiation into the regulatory camp took place at a press conference introducing the Project to Promote Competition Innovation in the Digital Age, a group of Microsoft rivals that will pursue its lofty goal by urging the authorities to sue Bill Gates' pants off. ProComp, as it's called, will have help navigating D.C.'s treacherous lobbying shoals from ex-Senator and Visa pitchman Bob Dole as well as from such heavy hitters as ex-Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Varney...
...political truth teller has become just another available package--one that journalists may like more than voters do. The public that twice elected Bill Clinton seems to favor politicians who revel in the game, and Bradley never has. He guards his privacy and prefers to float above the fray--which could make him seem arrogant, unwilling to sully himself in the free-for-all of a primary. "Bill wants very much to be President," says a former aide, "But he doesn't particularly want to run for President...
...behind the scenes to make possible the agreement that has undoubtedly helped send the Dow soaring to new heights as our national economic confidence rises. Forsaking the vastly higher salaries and benefits available in the private sector, Raines has spent two and a half years of service in the fray of the nation's capital, with its media frenzy and partisan battles...
...believe that more information and more opinions will eventually lead to more truth. That is why we were among the first journalists to go online and on the Web, and why we have pushed for open systems, like the Internet, that allow a diversity of voices to join the fray...
...have never been against conciliation of the Buddhists. I am only against one-way conciliation. If sometimes I have to step in the fray, becoming a target of most cruel blows, it is not at all by natural taste, but because someone must finally make up his mind to take a position, dangerous, maybe, but necessary to break the paralyzing fear of others. What else can I do when I feel responsible for half of the population which I have done so much to liberate? Because of my utmost sincerity, I think that if I show some awkwardness, I need...