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Bush's inaugural rendition of the time-honored slogans of our democracy, of living in a "new world that became a friend and liberator of the old" and "a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom," do not match the age in which we live so much as his other comments on the persistence of poverty, at-risk children and prisons...
Though he has spent the last eight years as a public servant and policymaker, Summers is a highly regarded academic and has the all-important Harvard connection--a prior affiliation with the University that makes him more appealing as a candidate and gives him backers on the inside. And with his extensive experience on the national stage, colleagues think Summers might be the man with the vision to use Harvard's bully pulpit to its full advantage...
...inaugural ball, is the kind of hard-line conservative who makes liberal toes curl. Yet as he reached Senate Democrats like Russ Feingold and his old Yale classmate Joe Lieberman, he was able to elicit warm responses, or at least pledges of neutrality. Feingold called him a "respected public servant with a fine legal mind." New Jersey Democrat Bob Torricelli called him "a very good choice," praised his "sound judgment and high integrity" and said he favored his confirmation...
...months now, Topic A around the FBI water coolers has been gossip that FBI director Louis Freeh was actively job-hunting in Manhattan's high- dollar law firms. Freeh, a career public servant with six young sons, no savings and a puritanical bent, alternately denied and encouraged rumors that he was just waiting out First Bad Boy Bill Clinton before he pulled up stakes and moved north...
...moving vans to take them to Pennsylvania Avenue. But for Gore, more than anyone else who's out of a job on January 20, the challenge does not lie in the few weeks before Inauguration Day, but in the months and years that follow. What will this lifelong public servant do with himself in the unexpected and inescapable void yawning out ahead...