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...only so much. I felt O.K. in doing so because on most other fronts, I went along with her. Thou Shalt Not Smoke Pot is not the 11th Commandment, I rationalized. Armed with that perspective and the sound of my mother's voice in my head, I could tinker with the rules and push the boundaries without being afraid I would cross them. So, Mom, it was your fault after...
Perhaps that's the irony of the Clinton presidency, and the lesson too. Having campaigned in 1992 to make grand changes--only to fail--he ran in 1996 promising to tinker at the margins--and won. And that show of modesty, however carefully staged, was enough to convince a majority of voters that maybe he could now even be trusted to do the big things. He passed the test. As a result, the first Democrat in two generations to win a second term may actually have earned the chance to make some history...
...said they would vote for Perot, a slide from 19% last September. The major-party candidates seem to have concluded that the American public has sampled radical change in the past two elections and not much liked its taste. Nor, perhaps, do most Americans see the need to tinker with a strong economy. Things are going well in the country these days, according to 61% of those in the TIME/CNN poll, almost double the number who thought so in July...
Choosing which role a club should play is no easy task. Limited funds and multifaceted memberships force club officers to tinker with their organizations' programming, searching for the perfect balance between social action and social interaction...
...component less churchy and more accessible. (The Quick and the Dead, a Christian punk band, has played at one of his crusades, singing: "I'll dress like a woman. Bare my butt. But sometimes I wish I was me.") But his general approach, he says, is "You don't tinker with it if it ain't broke." He is actually a somewhat limited man, lacking Billy's curiosity about and respect for the intellectual and theological worlds, and for all his personal magnetism, he is uninterested in playing politics, even within the confines of evangelical gatherings. He offers little...