Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...self-involved, pudgy 50-year-old who had a wife and a killer schedule that left no time for champagne, candlelight or pillow talk. If she'd realized it was the presidency she was swooning over, not the President, and spent more time pushing her ideas for education reform and less time moaning to Tripp, the Senate might not be tied up in knots trying to decide how to carry out somber constitutional duties over matters that have the makings of farce. Some Senators must be longing for the days when Presidents lied about things that mattered, like coups...
...expectations piling up around him. Millionaire publishing tycoon Steve Forbes, in his fourth year of nonstop campaigning, has replaced his passion for the flat tax with sermons on abortion, winning few converts. John McCain, the maverick Arizona Senator, announced his semi-candidacy last week by talking about campaign-finance reform, and former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander jumped in (again). The party's absolutist wing looks like a scrapyard. Last week it saw its darling, Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri, announce that he would not seek the nomination...
...year later, academic departments, prompted by the Educational Policy Committee, are at various stages in the process of reevaluating where they stand on concentration requirement reform...
...case you were wondering, there are people in Congress who are intent on getting back to business. Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Rep. Martin Meehan (D-Mass.) intend to reintroduce their campaign-finance-reform bill in the House next week. And believe it or not, the two men have a fair chance of getting both the attention and the cooperation of their colleagues. "There is much talk in the House of burying the hatchet," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "The opportunity may arise over campaign reform. Not much needs to be done on it. There is a majority...
...Passing the bill would put some meat behind the rhetoric of bipartisanship that dominated the opening of the new Congress. The obstacle this time, as it was last time, will undoubtedly be the Senate, where the legislation died last year. But even if the Senate fails to pass campaign reform again this year, the upper chamber may have its own opportunity to demonstrate that it too can salve wounds and move on following an impeachment trial. "The appetite for bipartisan activity in the Senate is focused on saving and reforming Social Security," says Dickerson. "Both parties there...