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Both in the Ivies and at state universities, the anti-sweatshop movement began elsewhere and became more radical more quickly than at Harvard...
Though Madeleine Albright is the public face of the idea that moral impulses should be backed up by military force, no one has done more than Gore to drive home that approach within the White House. "President Clinton consulted with him at every turn," former Secretary of State Warren Christopher recalls. "The Vice President was usually the last person he talked to before reaching a foreign policy decision." Which is not a bad place to be when you are trying to persuade the ever persuadable Clinton. Says Bill Richardson, the Energy Secretary and former U.N. Ambassador: "He comes...
...will begin next month, when the Governor is scheduled to wrap up the legislative session in Austin and make his first campaign trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Frustrated by Bush's dominance of the race, some rival campaigns have dispatched operatives to Texas to scour newspaper clippings and state budget reports, pick over old speeches and offhand remarks, quiz Bush enemies and even some old friends, all in search of information they can use to diminish Bush's aura of invincibility. The goal: to use Bush's record and his status as the chosen candidate of the G.O.P. establishment...
...that Bush's view of Ames as a booby trap isn't justified. Straw polls--where participants pay to vote--can be manipulated by rivals to make front runners look bad. Bush's rivals are already starting. They claim that Bush cutouts floated the idea of "reimbursing" the state G.O.P. for canceling the event. When that didn't work, they quietly inquired whether other big-name campaigns might join Bush in skipping Ames, hoping to render it meaningless. The Bush camp denies both charges...
...autobiography. "The boy's a fighter [borets in Russian]," he said. "We'll call him Boris." Yeltsin is still a fighter, and still has luck on his side, as the collapse of an attempt to impeach him last weekend shows. He also has cunning, and a formidable state patronage system that works for him, as well as a constitution that he had made to measure. But his vision these days is not of a Russian renaissance. Instead, he is a man obsessed with simple survival. As a frustrated member of parliament, Vladimir Semago, said after Saturday's impeachment vote...