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...Project, according to the foundation's literature, is "dedicated to creating a climate in American politics that will allow a qualified woman to successfully run for the presidency within the next decade." You may have seen their high-profile ad campaign in numerous national magazines, a mock ballot printed with the photos of 20 women who were chosen as strong potential candidates. The photos include those of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Dole, Marian Wright Edelman and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas). Though the ballot is only hypothetical, its collection of portraits and profiles makes...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: A Woman for the Right Reason | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

Since starting in Congress as one of the few new Democrats after the Republican rout of 1994, Kennedy, then 27, worked hard to shed the "Congressboy" image that led a local radio station to mock him by playing the tune If I Only Had a Brain. One who has been impressed is House minority leader Dick Gephardt. The two men share the same left-of-center ideology, and Kennedy has proved his determination and drive to his mentor through tireless campaigning for other House members and fireplug advocacy of such causes as education and health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Representative Patrick Kennedy: IDEALIST IN THE HOUSE | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...results? Gates and Co. posted a net income of $2.2 billion, up from $1.36 billion this time last year. Earnings rose a healthy 62 percent. On Friday, Gates's personal fortune crossed the $100 billion mark, a watershed in the annals of filthy lucre. We curse Microsoft, we mock it, we pirate it, but it keeps on getting bigger. How does Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft Makes More Money | 7/20/1999 | See Source »

...gang of fighter pilots). The men are understated, even serene. Their stories of torture and endurance--one was imprisoned for 8 1/2 years--are intercut with newsreels and astonishing black-and-white propaganda footage that the Academy Award-winning husband-and-wife team of Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders found in Vietnamese archives in Hanoi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Tap...Tap Tap Of Courage | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...admiral and run for Vice President in 1992 with Ross Perot) driven to such despondency in prison that he attempts suicide. Here is the Navy's Richard Stratton "playing the Manchurian candidate," he says, pretending to be brainwashed when paraded before propaganda cameras. Forced into the same mock show, Commander Jeremiah Denton blinks out T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse code with his eyelids. Lieut. Paul Galanti casually displays both middle fingers before the cameras (only to have the obscene gesture airbrushed out by LIFE magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Tap...Tap Tap Of Courage | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

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