Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff members as they work all night at his house on an M.I.T. graduation speech, surrounded by note cards and bits of paper stuck on easels. "For him it's like golf. He loves it!" concludes an aide. But beneath this wonkish exterior, the President has found a smart politico. After the TWA 800 crash, Clinton named Gore head of a task force on airline safety--a delicate job, since the report he produces must be rigorous without implying that the President flubbed the issue earlier. Gore is also the favorite mouthpiece for Clinton's rapid-response team, "prebutting...
When he last ran for President, Bill Clinton fixed on the nation's drug problem to blast George Bush savagely. "Bush confuses being tough with being smart," Clinton told me in 1992. "You can't get serious about crime without getting serious about drugs. Bush thinks locking up addicts instead of treating them, or teaching kids to resist using them in the first place, is clever politics. Maybe so, but it's lousy policy and the consequences of his cravenness could ruin...
...that wedding a month before it was to take place.) "I think they complement each other," says Wentzel's father James, who was "a bit shocked" when his son started dating a President's daughter. "Our son's very outgoing and people-oriented, and Amy's quiet and smart." They plan to marry in September...
...just welcome the less fortunate and minorities. We have to reach out to them. We are obliged to help them become like the rest of us in this room. It is not only the morally right thing to do," Kemp said quietly for emphasis. "It's the politically smart thing...
...from Harvard. The other intern resented the fact that I'd gotten the best desk despite arriving later--and she was sure my school was the reason. At the first lunch hour, everyone asked what it was like to go to Harvard and then made some joke about how smart I must be. Everybody was friendly, but their discomfort was obvious. I began to wonder if my forehead had grown that big red tattoo on its own accord...