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...former Assistant Secretary of hud and lesbian activist who is hoping to tap into the city's sizable gay vote. The result is the most closely contested mayoral race in the nation. When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 7, they must choose among a low-key pragmatist like Jordan, a well-connected professional pol like Brown and a seasoned social activist like Achtenberg. "San Francisco was one of the first cities in the nation to test whether people who aren't professional politicians can run governments as well as or better than politicians who have been...
...presidential candidate is on the defensive. Pundits hint that Lugar is charismatically challenged, that his political persona is as flat as an Indiana cornfield, that he is, in short, too bland to be President. "Gee," Dick Lugar says, "I know that people say I'm far too low-key, even that"--and here a brief, sad smile--"I'm dull...
...probably just wiped out." Replacing the 69-year-old Mikva will be Vice President Al Gore's chief of staff, Jack Quinn. The transition should be a smooth one, says Carney: "Quinn is ideal for the position. He's not an outsider by any means, and his low-key temperment couldn't be more different than Bernard Nussbaum." Nussbaum was the Clinton administration's first White House counsel...
...probably just wiped out." Replacing the 69-year-old Mikva will be Vice President Al Gore's chief of staff, Jack Quinn. The transition should be a smooth one, says Carney: "Quinn is ideal for the position. He's not an outsider by any means, and his low-key temperment couldn't be more different than Bernard Nussbaum." Nussbaum was the Clinton administration's first White House counsel...
Republicans, who have never hesitated to charge Clinton with all kinds of wrongdoing, were uncharacteristically low-key in the wake of Starr's latest indictments. Senator Al D'Amato insists that the indictments prove the need for more hearings by his Senate Banking Committee: "These indictments are troubling and disturbing and point to a pattern of wrongdoing among people closely associated with the President and the First Lady.'' Starr has not announced the end of his investigation and, even as Administration officials predicted a positive conclusion for the Clintons, a federal judge extended Starr's grand jury another six months...