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...White House and both houses of Congress is impressive, there was an additional triumph to savor: driving a stake through the Clinton era. Although he wasn't running, Bill Clinton was a major presence, raising funds, campaigning for candidates and generally trying to help his party regain its mojo. Tuesday's vote was a repudiation of his efforts. What's more, last week's rout may well quiet critics who continue to suggest that with help from his brother and the Supreme Court, Bush had stolen the 2000 election from Al Gore. This is Bush Country...
...plethora of ladies mill around outside Cabot but neither Houlihan nor Ferrante makes any attempt to put the mack down, work their mojo, or spit game at the young co-eds. Ferrante reflects on his unwillingness to do so: “C’mon Houlihan, you know and I know that I don’t got no balls...
...best sign that Congress got its mojo working was movement on the politically explosive question of whether and how to provide prescription-drug benefits to the elderly. Few expected anything more than theater in the Senate. But quickly enough, Florida Democrat Bob Graham and Oregon Republican Gordon Smith proposed the outlines of a viable bipartisan compromise--one that offers full coverage to people with incomes under 150% of the poverty level and modest discounts to those earning more. Some Democratic strategists were worried that the party could be ceding one of its best issues this fall; one groused that...
...Ebbers who gave LDDS its mojo--and a mission to democratize U.S. long-distance service. "He was the most focused leader I'd ever seen," says Murray Waldron, one of Ebbers' original partners. Ebbers used a folksier spin. "The thing that has helped me personally," he told TIME in 1997, "is that I don't understand a lot of what goes on in this industry." What he did perceive was that his networks had to keep getting bigger to achieve economies of scale. By 1995, LDDS counted many of America's largest corporations as customers for its vast voice...
Sprawled on the floor, Daisy, a dark-eyed 7-year-old, reads aloud: "Chas smiled proudly. 'This is your lucky day,' he said.'" Her audience of one yawns and leans against Daisy's leg; Daisy reaches down to scratch the listener's ear. Mojo, a black Labrador retriever, sighs and settles in. It's the weekly meeting of the America Reads program in Santa Monica, Calif., which uses dogs to encourage kids to explore the world of books. After the session, Daisy tells a visitor that she likes reading to dogs because "they just sit and listen. They're calm...