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...remember a photograph from one of Clinton's first visits to the Oval Office after his first election. He was wearing a short-sleeved sport shirt and was sprawling at his desk. He was drinking a large mug of root beer, and he had his large white thumb projecting through the handle around the tankard. The waves of vulgarity this picture gave off made me have the strong instinct that he was going to vulgarize the office of the presidency...
...story. A girl, who happens to be currently in the dumps, has a good heart and hopes to meet a good guy. Of course, she has terrible taste in men, and every man she meets takes advantage of the aforementioned good heart. You root for the girl, curse the schmucks, and hope that everything ends happily ever after...
...NASDAQ falls through and keeps on going, it'll likely be for its own reasons - and a deep, serious correction in the tech sector could be the foundation of a real rally. Except that it's hard to see a real rally taking root without a president-elect. If this drags on, and the markets finally run out of patience, both Al Gore and George W. Bush will deserve some responsibility...
...while most will recognize Gore's own failings or simple political inadequacies as the real root of his loss, Gore himself may not be so self-absorbed. As he looks back over the past eight years, and ponders what might have been over the next four, the vice president will always be haunted by the specter of Bill Clinton. The President, in all his glorious imperfection, embodies everything Gore despises, and everything he wanted so desperately...
...same time, it's clear that neither Arafat nor Barak wants an escalation. The fact that the cease-fire brokered last week by Arafat and former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres appears to be taking root despite the continued impetus toward violent clashes suggests both sides may be looking for a way out of their current impasse. But exploring ways to resume a dialogue will likely rewind back a lot further than Camp David. And the idea of Washington sharing the mediation duties with others may not be unappealing to the next U.S. president. After all, as Bill Clinton...