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...first day to define the most ill- defined job in America. After a decade of getting up early, popping into her blue Oldsmobile and driving her daughter Chelsea to school before heading to work at Little Rock's leading law firm, and after a year of nonstop, around-the-clock campaigning, she now has time for a second cup of coffee. Of course, her new position has its privileges: she gets to live in the country's most famous house, jet on Air Force One to visit heads of state and throw parties with the most impressive guest lists...
...associate editor Priscilla Painton and senior writer Walter Shapiro, it was the end of a long road. Since July one or the other has been at Clinton's side almost nonstop. Some pundits think this kind of close-in coverage blurs a journalist's objectivity. Counters Painton: "You can read all the position papers and interview all the campaign staff you like, but there is nothing like spending 17 hours a day with someone to get a feel for his presidential character...
...wonder so many voters say they are soured, numbed and disaffected by the long procession of public statements, charges and countercharges, newspaper photographs and television film of seemingly nonstop campaigners at endless rallies. A disenchantment bordering on bitterness consumes the public attitude toward the whole punishing business...
MANY TBILISI RESIDENTS ESCAPE to dachas in the hills above the Georgian capital during summer weekends, but not Eduard Shevardnadze. For the former Soviet Foreign Minister and current chairman of the republic's provisional State Council, affairs of state continue nonstop. Seven days a week, from 8:30 a.m. until well after midnight, Shevardnadze is on the job, working the battery of telephones on his desk beneath a silver icon of the madonna and child. On Monday fighting broke out again in the secessionist region of Abkhazia. On Tuesday Russian forces killed several Georgian guardsmen in the Abkhazian capital. Wednesday...
...survived snags over textiles, avocados and chickens and still faces a stiff test in Congress. After 14 months of almost nonstop and frequently contentious haggling, negotiators for the U.S., Canada and Mexico were poised to sign the North American Free Trade Agreement, which would bind 363 million consumers into the world's largest trading zone with a combined gross domestic product of more than $6 trillion...