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FIRST HE TRIED PERSUASION. THEN HE OFFERED COMpromise. When that didn't work, Boris Yeltsin declared war. And that finally led to compromise. After eight days of haggling with Russia's supreme legislature, Russia's first | democratically elected leader took the podium on Thursday and proceeded to heap buckets of scorn upon the Congress of People's Deputies, a legislature populated with Soviet holdovers. Their simmering feud had finally boiled over. He blasted the body for "blocking reform," for orchestrating a "creeping coup." He accused Deputies of defiling the Kremlin meeting hall with "the sick ambitions of failed politicians." Then...
...Inner Confidence--3 .Phony Exaggerated Grins--1 .Multi-second Dramatic Pauses--5 .Looks of Utter Disbelief--2 .Looks of Repressed Anger--6 .Looks of Deep Sadness with Regard to Bill Clinton's Character--2 .Phony Exaggerated Grins--8 .Nose Blows--1 Multi-Second Guffaws--1 .Resting on Eye-Level Podium--most of debate. .Phony Exaggerated Grins--3 .Drawing of attention to ears--Not this time. Media BashesNone, instead, he quotes The Washington Post Only once last night 5 times. but quotes The Wall Street Journal once, and tells Bush to get a Nexis/Lexis on Iraq twice. Congress...
That may be. But the willingness to expose those inner lives from the podium is something new in U.S. politics. In 1972 Thomas Eagleton was shamed off the Democratic presidential ticket after revelations that he had undergone shock therapy. This year, in contrast, the Democrats are getting maximum electoral mileage out of their personal problems -- perhaps hoping that people will bring their inner children into the voting booths with them...
Gregory's plight attracted national attention and even reached the podium of the G.O.P. convention, where conservative Pat Buchanan cited the case in his attack on Hillary Clinton, implying Gregory's lawsuit was an assault on the American family and could unleash a flood of frivolous litigation by willful children against their parents. Finally, after a parade of witnesses attested to his mother's less than perfect parenting, it was Gregory's small clear voice declaring "I'm doing it for me, so I can be happy" that resonated in the courtroom. In the past eight years, the child...
...person and off the podium, Hillary Clinton is neither a killer lawyer nor the adoring spouse of the bus tours. Riding in the back seat of a car during a New York campaign swing, she wolfs down popcorn while worrying about whether < Chelsea got her booster shots. She jokes about only making the teams for sports like volleyball and softball -- and laments that she didn't have the foresight to concentrate on profession-enhancing pastimes like tennis and golf. While Bill can go for long stretches of time on the road, she says she has to head back frequently...