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EDUCATION This year he pushed a major reform that combined most of Gore's spending proposals with stronger accountability measures. He has supported some voucher plans, saying they offer "hope to a whole new group of low-income kids...
...part, Buchanan is keeping a brave face. "This Reform Party skirmish is over," he said, perhaps optimistically. "It's on to November." At the convention he surprised nearly everyone by choosing a black woman as his running mate. Ezola Foster, a former Los Angeles schoolteacher, seemed the antidote to accusations that Buchanan isn't inclusive. And it also seemed right for this Summer of Love as the G.O.P. reaches out to minorities and Al Gore broke barriers by picking Joe Lieberman. But upon closer inspection, it was hard to see how the all-but-unheard-of Foster could energize Buchanan...
Musykantsky's alert that the country is "at war" was a jab at Russia's liberals, who have been fighting a losing battle for more civil rights. Throughout the post-Soviet reform period, Moscow's city government has been enforcing Soviet-era rules that require visitors to register with the police. Russia's Constitutional Court, the nation's highest legal authority, has repeatedly held that these rules violate the rights granted by the Russian constitution. But constitutional debate in Russia is shaped more often by shrapnel than by legal doctrine. Putin's anti-Chechen rhetoric often seems a calculated reminder...
...BUCHANAN Reform Party kaput; polls lousy; picks a black Bircher woman as Veep. A landslide fer sure...
CAMPAIGN FINANCE He slammed Clinton and Gore for their White House coffees and "the fund-raising madness of the 1996 election." Both parties, he said, "hung a giant FOR SALE sign on our government." Some Democrats who agreed with his support for reform wished he weren't so blunt...