Word: leadershipabilities
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...Beijing is paying close attention to this issue. Its leaders' focus should be directed not to the D.P.P. but to the people in Taiwan. If they keep trying to intimidate us and equate everything we do with so-called Taiwan independence--including foreign travel by our leadership and our participation in international relations--then our people will be alienated. That will lead to a greater desire for independence...
...surviving saints of the civil rights movement, John Lewis, now a Democratic Congressman from Atlanta, remains most committed to its original creed. Unlike black-power advocate Stokely Carmichael, who ousted him from the leadership of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1966, Lewis never abandoned his belief in a utopian "beloved community" in which all men and women are created equal regardless of their race. Unquestioning faith in that idea led Lewis from his family's sharecropper farm in Alabama to the front lines of the battle for racial justice during the 1960s; he never flinched as he suffered arrests...
...extra goodies in Clinton?s 1998 budget. It was a win-win that turned, with a bang of Trent Lott?s gavel, into a lose-lose. And although Newt Gingrich is suddenly making noises about antitobacco in the House, you can bet that whatever emerges from the Republican leadership will be carefully crafted to give Clinton neither money nor plaudits enough to sustain the appearance of second-term activism that Clinton so desperately wants. "All he?s got left is the China trip," says Branegan. It doesn?t get any more no-win than that...
...Iran on Sunday -- the Islamic country's conservative mullahs. The last thing Iranian conservatives want is a victory that would produce another outburst like the one that happened when Iran qualified to go to France. "Men and women together in the streets celebrating and having fun horrified the conservative leadership, but there was nothing they could do about it," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. When Iran got the World Cup invite, there were eight-hour demonstrations in the major cities. Says MacLeod, "If Iran defeats the U.S. the same thing will happen again...
...control the convention, will also propose adding a clause to the Baptist statement of faith, last amended 35 years ago, that will define the proper "biblical" family. The prescription bound to provoke the most attention states that a good Christian wife "is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband." Passage of the amendment seems a good...