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That aside, certain aspects of the drug conflict are crippling our ability to properly punish and incarcerate those who commit violent, aggravated crimes while sober...
...humiliation was particularly painful because the Aga Khan, 57, has long been regarded as a conscientious and sober-sided businessman. Unlike his playboy father, best known in the West for marrying actress Rita Hayworth, the Harvard-educated Aga Khan has kept a low-key image while raising Thoroughbred racehorses and amassing holdings that include resorts, newspapers and airlines. He spends most of his time overseeing a personal secretariat outside Paris that manages his Ismaili religious foundation and its 16,000 worldwide employees. The philanthropies fund dozens of clinics, orphanages and schools controlled by his followers in Asia, Africa...
...left, the goal was socialism, meaning a new, more rational system of authority. The mad vagaries of the market would be replaced by the sober deliberations of experts; dedicated, responsible cadres would take over from the CEOs. But if there was one theme that united the New Leftists of the world it was a hatred of authority in any form, no matter how well-meaning. French radicals demanded "All power to the imagination!" Americans in the civil rights movement envisioned -- not socialism -- but a huge, messy, effervescent process of participatory democracy, from the bottom up. "Power to the people...
...governance, and as Lincoln said, "Public opinion is everything. With it nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed." But several top Clinton aides say the President should stay home and address to the country from the Oval Office. Speaking for the national interest, they argue, requires a sober venue commensurate with the stakes. Like John Kennedy, however, Clinton fears overexposure. He is well aware that Franklin Roosevelt gave only four fireside chats during his first year in office (and only four more during his first term). Clinton knows too that it was F.D.R. himself who said "the public psychology...
...hard," says a longtime Clinton friend. "The badge of honor in his White House is the fact that no one dawdles and everyone brags about not sleeping." (Such an affection for process over substance dominated the early months of the New Frontier too. "Yeah," said Robert Kennedy in a sober, after-the-fact recollection, "those were the days when we thought we were succeeding because of all the stories on how hard everybody was working...