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With each passing day, the situation became more and more uncertain. "You've got your clear attack dogs. They love it, they don't mind living in glass houses and throwing rocks," said Mark Sanford, a South Carolina Republican. "But most of us feel uncomfortable in the role of judge. It isn't exactly why we came to Congress. We're off center and edgy." Democratic lawmakers who had been suggesting privately for weeks that the President step down found new allies in corridor conversations and even in leadership meetings. At Clinton's appearance Wednesday in Florida, the audience inside...
...party defined for so long by its whiteness, Glenn is black. While most black Republicans complain of being ignored by the party, he has drawn money from such potentates as James Baker and Colin Powell. And in this majority-white district, the Democrat he has to beat, Sanford Bishop, is another black...
...Democrat eked out a 54% win over a white Republican two years ago in a district that is two-thirds white, but improved that standing with good constituent service--and an occasional visit to a rattlesnake roundup. "A lot of whites were scared to vote for a black, but Sanford changed all that," agrees R.S. Smith, 65, a white retiree in Bainbridge, looking over at Glenn. "Yeah, I'll give this fella a look...
...assets in one area to create liabilities in another. These computer-run accounts will factor in everything from the weather to the age of your children in plotting out your future demands. "Yesterday's income and today's wealth will always be known with a high degree of confidence," Sanford predicted in his 1993 speech. "Wealth accounts will be instantly tapped via 'wealth cards.' For example, you will be able to pay for your sports car by instantly drawing on part of the wealth inherent in your vacation house." Finance, suddenly packed with microchips, could become a banker-free zone...
DIED. TERRY SANFORD, 80, Governor, Senator and presidential candidate from North Carolina. Tagged one of the century's 10 best Governors in a Harvard study, Sanford aided integration and overhauled public education in his state; he was also president of Duke University for 16 years...