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...Compare Bush-Cheney with Clinton-Gore. With the Democratic boomers, we had archetypes of new men. Clinton was a classic. A believer in feminism because it gave him greater opportunities to meet women and have sex, Clinton knew how to disguise his roguish heart with a new man's patter. He talked the talk on women's rights, gave his wife an unelected office and backed abortion rights to the nth degree. But behind the scenes, like most male feminists in the 1970s, he was talking dirty with Vernon Jordan and manhandling the help. He was a new man with...
...schools, christening buildings, opening military bases. What he is saying is by now rote, the usual praise for Taiwan and the spirit of its people. The people seem to be listening, but they sit on their hands. Then it starts raining, and Chen's words are lost in the patter of drops on the canopy roof...
...crowd sits on their hands. They seem to be listening. Then it starts raining and Chen's words are lost in the patter of drops on the canopy roof...
...Bushes moved into the Blue Room for coffee, the awkwardness that usually attends these rituals was missing. Bush and Clinton have little in common--not intellectual curiosity, not ideology, not attention span. But in December, when George W. Bush with his sports-jock patter made his first postelection visit to Clinton with his rock-star genes, they just clicked. The new guy had no questions about Third World debt. He wanted to know what made the place tick and how you mainline yourself into the nation's bloodstream. Clinton told Bush he was lucky to know already where the light...
...artificial intelligence lab at M.I.T., and you may notice a winsome robot in the corner trying desperately to get your attention. When Kismet is lonely and spots a human, it cranes its head forward plaintively. It flaps its pink paper ears and vocalizes excitedly in a babylike patter. Kismet's handlers call this an "attention-getting display." You would have to have a heart of stone to ignore this cute little aluminum...thing...