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...DeBusschere later wrote, "Every now and then our future President tapped a guest on the back and said, 'Excuse me, but I'm ready to take your confession.'" It was Bradley's idea of a practical joke. Today, with his indictment of a "paralyzed and polarized" system in the thrall of money and pollsters, Bradley is again the priest at the party. But this time he's not kidding, and the party is the Democratic one. Is it ready for its confession...
...mystery, which had most of Washington in thrall last week, seems only to deepen. Landow, a Maryland real estate developer, has told friends that Willey called him a number of times in recent months seeking favors. In fact, Landow claims to have saved voice mail from Willey, a source told TIME. In one message, she asked him to buy a $1,500 table at a USO dinner (Clinton had appointed her to the USO board) and escort her. In another, she described herself as "all stressed out" and asked if he had a Florida retreat she could...
...fact Klein was in the thrall of the Clinton charisma; his Jack is a figure that rockets off the page. In the film Stanton is less grand and less sexy, and Travolta plays it subdued, a tad mopish. His smile looks startled, as if he had just sniffed ammonia. He has the hardest job: while everyone else gets to crack wise, he has to make political platitudes sound like poetry and Stanton's skunkish behavior smell almost sweet. His Stanton is a large man unsure whether he's big enough for a job he would kill...
...such luck for Clinton. What we get now is movies in which the President is a man in thrall to his own libidinal fumblings, Commander in Chief of the banana republic. Maybe the Gennifer Flowers episode of Clinton's '92 campaign gave Hollywood the psychic go-ahead it needed to make an assault on old pieties about the presidency. The very next year the movies gave us Dave. That was the one in which Kevin Kline is an amiable presidential look-alike who fills in when the real President (named Bill!) is sidelined by a stroke that he suffered while...
Domestic politics makes it equally imperative for Clinton to be seen standing up for moral positions. He will court political damage if he doesn't speak forcefully on human rights; still, he can't place the whole relationship in thrall to this issue. Rather than dwelling futilely on token releases, Clinton might shift the emphasis to an ongoing "human-rights dialogue" to open up legal processes and prisoner visits. Realistically, says a top Clinton adviser, "with the Chinese, human rights aren't a matter of negotiation. We have to be aggressive in pursuing them but recognize that they're going...