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...entire family," he said, "for whole communities to come together. We all saw what happened out there in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago, a community that was divided and torn apart." The next day, with nary a mention of Rodney King, Bush praised policemen as "that thin blue line that separates good people from the worst instincts of our society...
...straight arrow, the billionaire who never lusted after money, a self-effacing idealist uncontaminated by personal ambition, a brilliant problem solver who never ducked a challenge and a patriotic outsider untouched by the muck of political horse trading? Or is there, as critics claim, a darker side to Perot: thin-skinned, self-righteous, unwilling to compromise and potentially authoritarian? Does Perot, in short, have the right stuff to be President at a time of domestic upheaval, economic unease and global uncertainty? Or does Perot represent the specter of chaos to come, a candidate who will create an Electoral College tangle...
Resting in a place of honor in Perot's office is a thin business self-help book, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun. It serves as a small reminder of the management style that made Perot a billionaire. "If you're in his way, he'll run over you," says a close associate who prefers anonymity to Perot's wrath. "He does not compromise well. Ross has two modes: your way and my way -- and we're going to do it my way." The problem is not that Perot refuses to listen; he in fact delights in bypassing the chain...
What's going on here? Has America's traditional compassion for the downtrodden worn thin? Is the country that paid billions to liberate a wealthy oil sheikdom on the other side of the globe suddenly unwilling to feed hungry kids at home...
BLASTING THROUGH A THIN LAYER OF CLOUDS INTO blue skies above, the new space shuttle Endeavour rode into space only half an hour behind schedule last week, on a mission to rescue a misplaced satellite and to give astronauts some space-walking practice. It was the first flight for the new $2 billion craft, a replacement for the Challenger, which blew up and killed its crew of seven in January...