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...President Clinton got from there to here was not by being all things to all people or being a gentler Republican. In the past two years, Clinton has found his own voice. He opposed the Republicans when they went too kinder far in pushing for cuts in Medicare, education and the environment. At the same time, he broke with the tired old dogmas of the Democrats in Congress by standing up for curfews, school uniforms, a balanced budget and welfare reform. No, not everyone agreed with him on every point, but he started to earn people's respect by standing...
...electoral system designed to halt money politics and limit the influence of special interests. "We need to create a government that can bring about change," says Minister of Health Naoto Kan, the highly popular co-leader of the new Democratic Party, which is promoting its version of a "kinder, gentler" Japan. Depending on the political party, plans for administrative reform run from a polite overhaul of the Ministry of Finance--which bears most of the blame for the financial crisis--to moving the bulk of government out of Tokyo...
...Today (with a year off to edit the ill-fated St. Louis Sun newspaper and obsess over his beloved Cardinals). Kadlec's Money in Motion column will mix financial advice with stories about the personalities of today's Wall Street, which he describes as somewhat kinder and gentler than in the greed-filled '80s yet "still plenty exciting with the push to be global and America's renewed interest in mutual funds." This week he offers a skeptic's take on the stock market as it continues its record-setting bull run. "Don't be blindsided," he suggests bearishly...
...your report on television coverage of the convention in San Diego [THE REPUBLICANS, Aug. 26]: while I accept the dubious honor you bestowed on me as the "gushiest anchorman" for my remarks about Elizabeth Dole's speech, I myself prefer the appellation "kinder, gentler anchorperson." DAN RATHER Anchor and Managing Editor CBS News New York City...
...company that's competing with Microsoft, where employees embrace the dramatic simplicity of "When I'm awake, I'm working." But plenty of others have tried to outwork Microsoft, and Gates has beaten them all. Barksdale's approach, at the very least, could someday lead to a kinder and gentler Valley culture. Whether Netscape's bottom line can hack that remains to be seen, but Bark believes his company deserves a little breathing room. "It's not a total win-lose game," he says. "I don't think anybody is going to have the dominant position in a network-centric...