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...true, grand solution to the problem of opportunity in America would be laborious and expensive. Affirmative action is a patch solution, not perfectly efficient, but it's cheap and already in place. Politically, the key question about it is how numerous its enemies are. Probably most whites casually resent affirmative action; a committed group burns with outrage about it; and some whites (it's hard to say how many) have actually lost a job or a place in school to an African American because of affirmative action. On the other side is an equally varied group: those who aren...
...Reagan-quality visual backdrops, the sound systems that never fail. Most of us dutifully report the torrent of bite-size initiatives his policy wonks are churning out, from free cell phones for neighborhood-watch groups to a Website for locating deadbeat dads. We come to both admire and resent his newfound discipline: be presidential, be centrist, be practical. The drama leaches away. Clinton commits few gaffes, raises millions and stays shockingly on schedule...
Most seasoned operatives know not to take Morris personally. He has helped Clinton focus, and if they want Clinton to win again, that should be all that matters. Stephanopoulos, for example, has good reason to resent Morris, who replaced his war-room comrade Carville as chief strategist. But Stephanopoulos found common ground with Morris, slipping into the same role he played for Carville as an antidote to the resident genius' screwier ideas. He saves Morris--and Clinton by extension--from crashing and burning. On the night of the Israeli election, when the race was too close to call but exit...
...feint at Medicare last year, its approval rating plummeted.) The predictable result was a massive increase in the federal deficit, $1.5 trillion over eight years, and a crisis that reopened the split between supply-siders and fiscal conservatives like Dole and George Bush. To this day, movement conservatives resent Dole for pushing through a $98.3 billion tax increase in 1982 followed by another for $50 billion two years later--the undertakings that led Newt Gingrich to call him the "tax collector for the welfare state"--and for supporting the 1990 tax deal Bush made with Democrats to bring the budget...
...really resent freshman year," he says. "I didn't have much fun that year because I studied so much...