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...this was no ordinary dinner, no ordinary time. The date was Jan. 24, 1998, three days after an atom bomb named Monica was dropped on the capital. The hosts were Al and Tipper Gore; House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt and his wife Jane were their guests. Washington was radioactive--the press was on a round-the-clock Clinton death watch--and there was private tension as well. A month before, Gephardt had delivered a scathing speech at Harvard, attacking Democrats who practice "the politics of small ideas" and replace compassion with "momentary calculation." Everyone knew whom he was talking about...
...first time she showed a real curiosity about psychological pain was right after Foster's suicide in 1993. She picked up books about depression and started to think of the subject as a real disease. Tipper Gore, for one, helped with Hillary's education in this regard, as did some clergymen, says a friend, whom she consulted about the roots of Bill's recklessness. She hoped to convince herself that "it stems from his screwed-up childhood and his own insecurities, that this is not about...
...affect the course of social policy in America's largest state. In 1978 Howard Jarvis transformed California's tax status with his Prop 13; last June computer magnate Ron Unz launched a successful initiative against bilingual education. Reiner is far from a dilettante. Four years ago, encouraged by Tipper Gore, he began an intensive study of child-development policy. After consulting with experts, he launched his "I Am Your Child" foundation, produced a TV special on early brain development and promoted a federal bill that would have directed $11 billion of the tobacco settlement to children's programs...
ALAN GREENSPAN Like a parsimonious tipper, he grudgingly pares the prime. Way to solve the financial crisis...
...normal year, politicians would scramble to be seen with a President whose job-approval ratings have remained over 60%. But in Raleigh, N.C., Democratic freshman Bob Etheridge proudly boasts that Tipper Gore will be appearing at a fund raiser for him this week and grows evasive when asked whether he'd like a similar favor from the Commander in Chief. "I ran my own campaign last time, and we plan to do the same thing this time," he says. His reluctance is understandable, given the fact that Etheridge recently became the first Democrat to be the target of a television...