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Only now is the Democrats' Silly Putty politics beginning to assume some semblance of structure. Though Bob Kerrey, Paul Tsongas and Tom Harkin still strive to overtake Clinton in New Hampshire, each could survive to fight in later rounds by running a respectable second here. Jerry Brown, who started as the most prominent in a field of little-knowns, must fend off disaster in this contest or find a launching pad elsewhere. The strategies of Clinton's four main rivals...
EASTERN EUROPE. While Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia strive more or less successfully to replace communism with Western-style democracy, in other former Soviet satellites the alternative to red rule seems to be a mystic nationalism based on blood and soil. That holds particularly true for the main antagonists in the Yugoslav civil war. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, still nominally a socialist, has led his people to war in the name of a virulent ethnic nationalism that has nothing in common with the international brotherhood of workers to which he once professed allegiance. For his major opponent, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman...
...three strongest rivals -- Harkin, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey -- all insist they must "do well" in New Hampshire. But none of them defines what that means for fear of inflating expectations. As these three candidates strive to gain a distinct image, the campaign will gain heat. For Kerrey, New Hampshire represents an opportunity to right himself after a rocky couple of months culminating in the replacement last week of his national campaign manager. Harkin, the most combative and liberal of the group, is expected to attack the centrist Clinton, whom Harkin views as his main rival...
Virtually every state in the U.S. is struggling to find ways to seal up increasingly leaky health-care systems. Hawaii was one of the first to strive for universal coverage and now reaches 98% of its residents. Florida, New York, Michigan, Maine and Wisconsin subsidize health-insurance coverage for some of their poorest citizens. South Carolina sponsors house calls for pregnant women. Alabama uses its school clinics to provide prenatal care. Despite this kaleidoscope of experiments, no one state can claim to have solved all its problems...
What I think is significant is how these people find that material success does nothing to assuage that injury. At a certain level, success exacerbates it, making you more alone, arrogant, adventure-seeking or adulterous. You strive and strive and get more; then you wonder, "How would I ever know if I am loved independent of my success? If everything was gone?" In a very primitive way, they almost have to dive off the cliff to test it. The televangelists seemed to be begging for it all to end. There's a pressure keeping up the narcissistic facade and masking...