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DIED. TOM BRADLEY, 80, quietly commanding five-term former mayor of the nation's second largest city; in Los Angeles. First elected in 1973, Bradley, a former police officer, became Los Angeles' first black mayor, triumphing with such projects as the 1984 Olympic Games but faltering in the aftermath of the 1992 riots (see Eulogy, below...
Brazilians amended their constitution in 1997 to allow President Fernando Henrique Cardoso to seek a second term in last Sunday's election. Cardoso, 67, a left-wing academic turned free marketer, has stamped out hyperinflation and given many of his 165 million countrymen their first real faith in democracy, capitalism and Brazil's titanic potential. Another four years, they hoped, would complete the dream. But now they'll need Cardoso's leadership just to stop the country's sudden nightmare of recession, unemployment and staggering deficits...
...doors shut on them by local sheriffs, Hyde changed his position. "We were coming back home on the plane," remembers Edwards. "And he said, 'We've got to change this.' He started out very conservative and then had a total awakening." Hyde has also famously bucked Republican orthodoxy on term limits, the Family Leave Act and gun control. His support for the ban on assault weapons in 1994 is credited with saving the measure. "The assault weapons have no other purpose than to kill a lot of people in a hurry," said Hyde, whose stance even tipped the opinion...
...most practitioners no longer adhere strictly to his approach. Some critics have claimed that his theories were based on shaky science or were contaminated by Freud's mistakes and manipulation of patients. Traditional Freudian analysis is now practiced by only a small cadre, overshadowed by drug therapies and short-term counseling more likely to be covered by managed care...
...think [health policy] is so important now and for the long-term, because we're all dealing with our health." he says...