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...obviously enjoys being around black people and has a real empathy for black people, more so than almost any other white politician I've ever seen. He's got the culture down; it's not phony. But sometimes his racial program was lousy. He's been very timid about appointing blacks to the federal bench. The race initiative, well intentioned as it was, was a dud. I still think welfare reform was unnecessarily brutal. In the end, his racial program came down to a mild defensive stance on affirmative action, the appointment of some high-profile people in the Cabinet...
...talk-show host. His diction is that of group therapy, and his tenure has been one long television gala. He's the man from Disney. It's been a series of poses, and very convincing ones. It's entertainment. Reagan was an actor pretending to be a politician; Clinton is a politician pretending to be an actor...
...historic day of firsts. The first visit ever by a U.S. president to unified Vietnam, Bill Clinton's first "shop-op" in Hanoi, and, for the Vietnamese, certainly, the first time they ever saw a politician plunge into a crowd and shake hands. Indeed, for all the diplomatic and historic significance of Clinton's trip to a country that has figured so prominently in his own political history, by far the most gratifying aspect has been the warm reception he's gotten from the average Vietnamese. State media downplayed the visit, and officials tried to limit POTUS's opportunities...
...fired electricity, gasoline consumption and other burning of fossil fuel. Europe is far ahead of the U.S. on the road to reducing its carbon gas outputs, but mostly through taxes on gasoline that push the pump price up past $4 a gallon - a scenario almost unthinkable for any U.S. politician contemplating reelection...
...Florida drama was greeted with a familiar shrug over in India, the world's largest democracy. "Even Laloo Yadav, the local politician whose name is a byword for corruption and electoral chaos, couldn't have dreamed up the spectacle we're seeing in Florida now," says TIME New Delhi contributor Maseeh Rahman. "It's given people here a sense that at a grassroots level, elections in the U.S. aren't that different from elections in India, particularly when it's a close fight - the victor is not always the guy who would have won in a fair contest." The suggestion...