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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Silicon Valley; his reversal on clemency for Puerto Rican terrorists; his overtures to New York's black power broker, the Rev. Al Sharpton; his sudden support for ethanol subsidies (which he once called "highway robbery"). Then he insists he isn't just another vote-grubbing pol. "When you're a national candidate, you see things in a different context," he says. "I'm being upfront and direct about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Being Bradley | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...become, then the gaze of the attractive, petite brunet often at Bill Bradley's side is instructive. From the beginning, academic and author Ernestine Misslbeck Schlant, 64, seemed to see him for who he wanted to be: a thinker, not just a jock; a statesman, not just a pol; sensitive and warm, not just arrogantly bright. Indeed, Dan Okimoto, Stanford professor and Bradley's college roommate, recalls that when Bradley first told him of Ernestine, he didn't start off by describing what she looked like but, rather, how she looked at him: though 30 cm shorter than the Knick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Importance of Being Ernestine | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Buchanan, who makes such a fine meal of the scraps of the Republican and Democratic feast as a pundit ? but precious little as a wannabe pol ? wants to switch. The battle is on for the soul of Ross Perot's brainchild, and the question being asked by the more serious elements in the Ventura camp is whether Pitchfork Pat has a reformist bone in his body. "I haven't heard his political reform agenda," Minnesota Reform party chairman Dean Barkley told the Washington Post. "I still see him having that abortion issue and that social agenda on the front burner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Reform Party Shouldn't Confuse Reform with Radicalism | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

...allow the memory of such a horrific occurrence in Cambodia to fade from global memory, then there is a chance that it will happen again. Almost 2 million people were brutally slaughtered, but we're no closer to knowing why. The only man who could have told us easily, Pol Pot, died in 1998. The world's reaction to Cambodia is appalling. We need to dig deep into this, investigate it, find out why. It will be a black stain on the entire human race if we allow a man to slaughter uncounted men, women and children, literally setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 6, 1999 | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

JOHN MCCAIN Mr. Straight Talk does a double backflip on abortion--just like a regular pol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 6, 1999 | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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