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After losing to Bart Gordon by a scant 2,174 votes in 1994, Gill takes another swing this fall. The two share some key stands--both are pro-life and support capital-gains tax cuts--but Gill argues he would be a more effective reformer. The only Tennesseean ever selected as a White House fellow, Gill served President Bush as director of intergovernmental affairs, helping to develop international-trade policy, which he teaches at Belmont University in Nashville...
...novelty only lasts so long. Whenever you need to change or quickly rush to class without answering questions and being photographed, it is tough to be a celebrity--a Harvard Student on display. First-floor living means captivity--the need to shut out the scant sunlight that enters the room because your half-naked physique might offend a passer-by. And, if it is afternoon and you can reasonably assume no "inappropriateness" will be going on, your open shades are greeted by telephoto lenses and the criss-cross pattern of the window screen on a stranger's nose...
...president of Yale in 1963 after Kennedy talked Bundy out of accepting the job. He became president of the Ford Foundation (which in a different world would have come later, after being Secretary of State), wrote a thoughtful tome on the relationship between the atom bomb and diplomacy (with scant mention of Vietnam), and headed a Carnegie Corporation project studying nuclear proliferation...
...time of political stagnation and feebleness, Lebed's successful peace negotiations in Chechnya have given him an aura of dynamism. Phenomenally popular among the public, deeply disliked by the governing elite, Lebed has to all intents and purposes already launched his presidential campaign. But he has handicaps--a scant political base and even less financial support. And his unpredictable, at times imperious ways make it difficult for him to keep the few allies...
...often asked after a Baghdad trip why these hard-pressed people don't rebel against Saddam. The middle class has fallen the furthest and would seem to be a vast pool of potential discontent. But U.S. agents have attempted to stir them to rebellion with scant success. That the middle class is not in a revolutionary mood is understandable when you pair the severe U.N. economic sanctions with the government's preoccupation with protecting its internal security. Their priority is the struggle for sustenance for themselves and their families, a daily struggle that leaves little room for other than dreaming...