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...life's dream. It's the Last Temptation of Gore, and it's one reason he has been so careful not to rule out a presidential bid. Is it far-fetched to think that his grassroots climate campaign could yet turn into a presidential one? As the recovering politician himself says, "You always have to worry about a relapse...
...Harper is also a charisma-challenged politician who wants a majority government in the next election but has not been able to dispel perceptions that he is cold and remote. (Shortly after winning office in January 2006, newspapers showed a stiff new PM shaking hands with his young son while dropping him off at school. Now photos on the Prime Minister's website show Harper holding homeless kittens.) Canadians might sympathize with a leader who ruefully said he was too busy worrying about running the country to read many novels, but giving a popular author the cold shoulder looks, well...
...deal is precisely what everyone wants to know these days. Beyond the appearance and the résumé lies perhaps an important difference from the earlier Romney. Whereas George stood firm and true against the prevailing political winds, Mitt seems as if he can dress himself as a politician for any season. You can't help wondering whether what he learned from his father's steadfastness was an object lesson in what not to do if he doesn't want to end up as a footnote in someone else's Presidential memoirs...
...tenure - the state's new health-care program - is something he rarely mentions on the trail, perhaps because the program is turning out to be more expensive than advertised and perhaps because "universal health care" is a rallying cry associated more with Hillary Clinton than with any Republican politician. Though the final deal was cut by the Democratic legislature, officials in Massachusetts say it couldn't have happened if Romney had not championed the concept of universal health coverage with voters and businesses. The Governor was also the one who put on the table the idea of requiring individuals...
...TIME: What drives you as a politician...