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...Republican barons who say McCain is out to destroy the G.O.P., he replies that he intends to save it. If Bush is campaigning as the champion of the status quo sentries of Washington, McCain is trying to turn them all out in the street and build a whole new bigger house, just as Bill Clinton did for the Democrats eight years ago. Which just raises the question: Is this for real, or is this a Jesse Ventura moment, all fun and feathers and wild surprise but not the kind of earthquake that redraws the continents...
...like a board of directors for the foreign-policy establishment. He wants to maintain the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays. On the matters with which he's most familiar, in other words, the revolutionary outsider looks more like an exemplar of the status quo...
...corporations seeking favors from his Commerce committee. Bill Bradley has also spoken out for reform, calling for public financing of elections. Vice President Gore, although involved in the Clinton Administration's 1996 fund-raising scandals, also advocates publicly funded campaigns. Only Texas Governor George W. Bush favors the status quo...
...signs had been clear for years that Europe intended to continue giving preferential status to bananas from its former colonies. An investment report prepared in October 1990 by the Wall Street firm of Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc., predicted that Europe, contrary to Chiquita's hopes, would maintain the status quo for years to come...
...Taipei. Beijing, naturally, reacted with alarm, and the White House made clear it would work the Senate to stop the bill from passing. "The White House reaction isn't surprising, since there's a longstanding arrangement with Beijing that they won't threaten Taiwan as long as the status quo is maintained and they're not put in an embarrassing situation," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But Beijing clearly sees this legislation as changing the status quo, and therefore requiring a response from them that can only inflame the situation...