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...suddenly we're all ears. In one of the most startling spikes in the history of polling, large numbers of Americans are abruptly calling crime their greatest concern. Confronted by clear evidence of a big issue, politicians everywhere, including the one in the White House, are reaching for their loudest guns: prisons, boot camps, mandatory sentences. Months before the start of baseball season, the air is full of shouts of "Three strikes...
...round of talks, they wondered whether they would find Yeltsin firmly on course for more economic reforms or possibly planning to trim under pressure from the extreme nationalists and communists in the newly elected parliament. In political shorthand, the apprehension had a name: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the most visible and loudest of Moscow's band of neofascists. But Clinton was more broadly concerned last week with resentment among the Russian people and with whether Yeltsin would have to respond by firing some of the best-known reformers from his Cabinet and by slowing down the transition to a free-market economy...
While Stephanopoulos is by far the most swooned over Clintonista, this insider audience cheered loudest for the Little People of the campaign. Carville's assistants and all-around War Room anchors Melissa Green, sitting on the floor in her backward baseball cap, and Collier Andress sent the applause meter jumping, as did Stephanopoulos' aide Heather Beckel. And Robert Boorstin, now a special assistant to the President, won a mixture of laughter and sighs for his Best Supporting Nerd walk-ons, in particular a scene recorded at the morning staff meeting during the convention at which Boorstin wouldn't give...
...have been thinking of? He was making progress toward persuading Congress to approve the North American Free Trade Agreement, and looked likely -- but far from certain -- to win an excruciatingly close House vote next Wednesday. So why risk giving last-minute national TV exposure to Ross Perot, NAFTA's loudest foe? Especially in the form of a debate with Vice President Al Gore, whose wooden performance in a face-off against Dan Quayle last fall contrasted painfully with Perot's barbed wisecracks in his own debates with Clinton and George Bush...
Students said the noise was loudest on the sides of the Leverett Towers facing the river, and the front of old Leverett...