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What's going on here? "Since he's no longer in the Senate," says a Dole staff member, "he can avoid tangling with the N.R.A. on this one." His avoidance tactic may be little noted and soon forgotten. Except by the families of those killed by terrorists--and perhaps some other citizens who may conclude in November that those who seek our trust shouldn't enjoy it until they stand...
...brief moments last week, Bob Dole soared. after his self-destructive waffles about tobacco, assault weapons and abortion, Dole found in education reform an issue on which he and Bill Clinton disagree so fundamentally that the President's tactic of "me-tooing" Dole's proposals is simply not an option...
...White House and the Empire State Building. On Earth, an ensemble cast fleshes out the stereotypes (Harvey Fierstein, whiny gay man; Judd Hirsch, crusty old Jew; Vivica Fox, stripper with heart of gold), while the three male leads mine all available righteousness and comic charm. Wryness is a big tactic here; it keeps the story from going ballistic. In the late 1990s, you will learn, there is apparently a 24-hour McLaughlin Group channel. There's also a near monopoly of Fox and Star TV news networks. The networks are owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which just happens...
...World budget. It was Kernaghan's testimony at an April 29 congressional hearing on labor abuses that put Gifford on the griddle. "The fact that major companies are going after these celebrities to be their point persons gives us someone we can wrap our arms around." In fact, that tactic worked so well that last week the lobby Made in the U.S.A. took advantage of the N.B.A. finals to remind consumers that Michael Jordan reportedly earns $20 million a year endorsing Nike sneakers, and to claim that this is more than the total annual payroll for the thousands of Indonesians...
Yeltsin uses another tactic to calm the anger he encounters--an immediate dispensation of funds. In the U.S. such pork-barrel spending is usually hidden in a maze of worthwhile legislation. In Russia, Yeltsin earmarks billions of rubles with abandon. In just the past several weeks he has signed a decree giving a $5 billion subsidy to farmers and has said commercial electricity rates will be cut in half. Those big items are ruinous enough, but Yeltsin's aversion to fiscal sanity goes further. In Yaroslavl, for example, he pledged $700,000 to house veterans of the Afghanistan...