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Browner is not the first government bureaucrat to dance around the issue of pesticides. But the former Florida secretary of environmental regulation was expected to be a stalwart anti-Quayle when it came to ecological correctness. Instead, rather sensibly, she plans to gather everyone from activists to farmers to chemical manufacturers around the negotiating table. "We have to get out of an adversarial posture and into a dialogue," she says...
Patricia (radiant Frances Conroy) seems more manic than depressive today. She has gone without her medication for three weeks, and is ready, maybe, to go home to her husband Leroy (stalwart John Heard) and their seven kids. Patricia wants Leroy, a carpenter who is descended from Alexander Hamilton, to be more successful and less complacent. And she seeks release from the ghosts of her golden youth. But wry or wistful, she speaks with the reckless lucidity of someone liberated from drugs and intoxicated by the impending peril of real life. "Sooner or later you just have to stand...
Mind you, this is a team that is missing two of its best players: sophomore Hobey-Baker-candidate-to-be Steve Martins and junior defensive stalwart Derek Maguire. Imagine the power play and penalty-killing-units when those two return...
...international relations for 11 years, since leaving Jimmy Carter's State Department, where he was director of policy planning. He is the author of five books on U.S. foreign policy. When he talks, his eyes are penetrating and his humor is wry. Described variously by associates as "a stalwart Puritan," "immensely kind," "the opposite of a self-promoter" and "a tough competitor," he seems psychologically centered, surprisingly devoid of the egotism and Machiavellian qualities often found in presidential advisers...
...disarray and inertia that marked Bush's economic management. "A lot of Republicans felt that any number of things weren't being addressed by the Bush Administration and that we were drifting toward a depression," says Dwayne Andreas, chairman of agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland and a longtime G.O.P. stalwart. "People will be very patient with Clinton if he appears to be heading in the right direction," Andreas adds, "because it will take a lot of time to get the economy turned around and moving again...