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Less than two weeks ago, while we were still on our so-called intersession break, the President addressed the country and declared the state of our union to be strong. To no less than 90 thunderous interruptions, President Clinton unleashed what the New York Times dubbed his midterm political manifesto. On the face of it, the whole evening--bipartisan applause, soundbites, no mention of the dangerous M. L.--seemed not much more than politesse, a perfectly orchestrated performance in which a scandal-torn government and a scandal-fixated media pretended that the state of the union was, indeed, sound...
...Clinton's first term. During the North American Free Trade Agreement battles of 1993, he insisted on debating Ross Perot against the wishes of White House staff--and outsimplified the Texan at his own game. Together with Morris, Bold Al helped turn around the rudderless Clinton presidency after the midterm-election debacle of 1994, urging Clinton to embrace the balanced budget in June 1995 when most other White House advisers were against it; arguing in August 1995 that it was high time to bomb the Bosnian Serbs into submission; and counseling Clinton during the winter's titanic showdown with...
...sound of hundreds of frantically flipping pages is often heard in a classroom just after a paper or midterm is returned, as students search for that single letter that can make or break their grade. But as the pages fly, the comments that the professor (or, more often, the Teaching Fellow) has written so lovingly in the margins are, shall we say, marginalized...
...longer will students be able to saddle up to the counter and drown out their midterm sorrows with a cold vanilla milkshake...
Unless the President can negotiate a compromise with Republicans on a plan to reform the IRS in the next few weeks, political commercials like the one Luntz dreams of will be saturating the airwaves come next year's midterm congressional elections. It's a prospect that scares Democrats all over town. Except, that is, for one of the most influential of all: Secretary Rubin. He knows that an anti-IRS bill backed by the G.O.P. leadership will move to the House Ways and Means Committee this week, but he has refused to budge on a central Republican demand: that...