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Another word for that may be pragmatism. In fact, the politicians are no longer in control of the process. One reason is that political and business elites have been discredited in a decade of financial scandals. Since the early 1990s, at least 30 prominent figures of all political stripes, including...
After their candidate left to polite applause, Bush spinmeisters sought to lower expectations. They are wise to do so - this is a crowd that goes overwhelmingly Democrat (Dole got 14 percent of the black vote, and Bush's dad did even worse), and will doubtless give Al Gore's Jesse...
But is it? The Gore in the transcript could have learned a lot from the astrologers, plagued as he seemed to be by faulty memory, defensiveness and--a defense lawyer's nightmare--a tendency toward needlessly expansive, rambling responses that sometimes contradicted his earlier words. And Gore's body language...
The smoothness with which Bashar Assad is being elevated to his late father's job as ruler of Syria must be generating some envy in the two other prominent heirs waiting to succeed a parent as head of state--Prince Charles and George W. Bush. Of the three countries involved...
Debates over the political and military wisdom of missile defense become somewhat academic if the system simply doesn't work, as a number of critics and observers believe. And the impression that its technological viability remains unproven could help President Clinton out of a tight spot. Although he's backed...