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...Constitution we're all in a dither over gives us two months to fix this. Bob Dole has joked that it's going to take a SWAT team to blast Clinton out of the Oval Office, so we don't need to be worried about whether he's going to give two weeks' notice. No fusion Cabinet, no bonding with members of the congressional opposition, will substitute for a genuine, authoritative result we can all live with, however unhappily. Only when we have that result will the winner have any hope of doing more than play-acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: It's a Crisis! But Largely on Cable | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...Constitution we're all in a dither over gives us two months to fix this. Bob Dole has joked that it's going to take a swat team to blast Clinton out of the Oval Office, so we don't need to be worried about whether he's going to give two weeks' notice. No fusion Cabinet, no bonding with members of the congressional opposition, will substitute for a genuine, authoritative result we can all live with, however unhappily. Only when we have that result will the winner have any hope of doing more than play-acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Crisis Only to The Candidates | 11/11/2000 | See Source »

...Gore treatment is equally controversial. He wants to send educational "SWAT teams" armed with extra cash into failing schools. If after two years that hasn't turned the schools around, states would have the power to shut the schools down and reopen them with new teachers and administrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush and Gore: Who's The Education President? | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...Gore treatment is equally controversial. He wants to send educational "SWAT teams" armed with extra cash into failing schools. If after two years that hasn't turned the schools around, states would have the power to shut the schools down and reopen them with new teachers and administrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's the Education President? | 10/29/2000 | See Source »

...study coordinators admit spanking is a sensitive subject (no pun intended). Many parents are torn between carrying on their own parents? tried-and-true disciplinary practices and their discomfort with the idea of hitting their kids. Fierce opponents of spanking compare it to child abuse - although logically, a quick swat to the rear-end is hardly analogous to the horrors of beating a child. Fair-minded people can disagree on this - as long as we?re actually talking about a quick swat, rather than a "let?s you, me and my belt go out behind the woodshed, son" scenario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Survey Gives Children Something to Cry About | 10/5/2000 | See Source »

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