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...expect the occasional tiffs over Chablis and microchip exports -- which occasionally punctuated the relatively laid-back approach to trade during the Bush and Reagan years -- to be settled quite so amicably in the future. President Clinton has, like many moderate Democrats, publicly straddled the trade-off between creating export jobs at home and subjecting U.S. workers to increasing competition from abroad. His speeches gently emphasize the goal of free trade one day, while sounding off against "unfair" competition the next. But behind closed doors, a tough new policy is emerging, and Kantor is primed to play...
...questions arise: which ends and who decides? It is a disregard for the inviolability of truth that allows certain individuals to claim that the Holocaust never occurred. It is a disregard for the inviolability of truth that enables many of the same people to assume that Blacks are inherently laid-back, rhythmic and athletic. Yet in spite of these inescapable dangers, Muhammad does not even recognize the possibility of reaching for such truth. Instead he condemns the presence of white faculty in the Afro-American studies department: "What a slap in the face to bring in the slave master...
...students are really relaxed--except during exams," Rosenthal says. "I came to North right after exams, and everyone was very laid-back. The students really feel like it's a home...
With an intellect unencumbered by a comparable ego, Stephanopoulos was able to bridge the chasm separating the campaign's often mismatched personalities. He made sure that Hollywood's laid-back producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who made the convention bio-film, was on speaking terms with chain-smoking, laser-intense Grunwald; he doled out face time on television among aspiring talking heads; not least, he soothed the brilliant, tightly coiled gonzo strategist James Carville by watching infomercials and Julia Child with him when Carville was too nervous to work...
...Bush thought he was going to make up for the deficiencies of the Reagan years. He pointedly said in his early days as President that he would insist on ethical government, that he would be kinder and gentler, that he would be a "hands on" President. The contrast with laid-back Ronnie and his scandals was never very subtle. The shallow Hollywood glitz, which was useful for regaining the White House from Jimmy Carter, would be replaced by solid Republican virtues now that patrician George was in the Oval Office. The simpleminded rhetoric about an evil empire would yield...