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...Clinton is to serve her real constituency, (i.e., the women and minorities who elected her Tuesday), she?ll have to wrangle appointments to the right committees, settle down into her relatively lowly position ("Just take one of those chairs in the last row, Senator Clinton") and gain her colleagues' trust. The last task could be the toughest: After all, Clinton wasn't just running against Lazio - and he wasn't just running against her. Both candidates had to contend with the phantom of Bill Clinton, albeit in different ways...
Only the hardest decisions make it all the way to the President's desk. That's something both men who are running have had a chance to see from front-row seats. "It's a revelation," says Al Gore, "the way excruciating, world-class problems tend to come in clusters." And George W. Bush knows from seeing his father renege on his "no new taxes" pledge how a single judgment can end up crippling a presidency. So, says Governor Bush, "you just gotta be confident enough in your positions and tough enough in your hide to be able to stand...
...Bush plan in action, consider the story of Spencer Bibbs Elementary in Pensacola, Fla. Meant to be a magnet school for science and technology, Spencer Bibbs instead posted abysmal test scores that landed it on the state's worst-performing list two years in a row. During the 1998-99 school year, just 26% of its students scored at the minimum-competency level of the state's reading exam...
...League's most dynamic rusher, junior tailback Jonathon Reese, Reese is Columbia's all-time rushing leader and the first Lion to gain 1,000 yards in a season, and his 1,052 yards leads the Ivy League. He had posted six 100-yard games in a row, erupting for 236 on 25 carries and 4 touchdowns against Dartmouth two weeks...
...photographer Karl Baden, depict storms of skin, dissociated from their normal facial placement and set against blank sky backgrounds. Each picture in the set of 35 on each contact sheet shows a minute part of Baden's face. Baden rearranges these segments-mouth, nose and eyes repeat in a row, are wrongly placed, or are not there at all. In one portrait, the flesh pulls and pushes apart like an epidermal big bang. Another print plays on the truism that "no man is an island," shoving all the flesh into the center of the sheet and leaving the mouth open...