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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give people the tools to make the most of their own lives." It helped that while he was trying to give people those tools, Newt Gingrich seemed intent on taking them away. Clinton's theme was pure empowerment. The models are the G.I. Bill, the Homestead Act, land-grant colleges and the mortgage insurance of the 1930s. The risk was that even if these themes were not entirely new to Clinton, they were embedded like tissue in Bob Dole. Kansas was a homesteader's paradise; he remade himself with the G.I. Bill. He was the living embodiment of a government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTION '96: CAMPAIGN: TWO MEN, TWO VISIONS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...rainy morning of July 31, Clinton could not put off his decision any longer: a conference committee of the House and Senate had shaped a bill that was about to pass and land on the President's desk within hours. So he summoned 12 or so decision makers--including Gore, five Cabinet Secretaries and five advisers--to a self-consciously historic meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Some thought the meeting was a bit of "Kabuki theater" staged by a President who had pretty well made up his mind; others are convinced Clinton was really undecided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTION '96: CLINTON AND DOLE: TWO MEN, TWO DECISIONS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Halvorson Co., a Boston land scape design firm, has designed the Quincy Square area and RAD Construction is the head contractor. Cedrone Construction is completing the work on the streets and sidewalks...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: Street Reconstruction: End Is in Sight (Finally) | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

Traditional American Jack-o-Lanterns, for instance, began in Ire-land as carved turnips...

Author: By Angela C. Walch, | Title: Memories Kindle Halloween Spirits | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

...winter's salvation is basket-ball, college and pro. College basket-ball is extraordinarily exciting and plays on weekdays, but the season does not start for another month. The pros start tomorrow, but after the novelty wears off (Who is not psyched to see Shaq in La La land?) the fan is faced by the meaningless games problem...

Author: By Yair J. Listokin, | Title: Sports Endures Cyclical Lull | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

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