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Reagan believed the office symbolized the dignity of the presidency. And [Clinton] to me was a man bringing in truck-driver values. We have had vulgar Presidents before, and they have not been bad Presidents. Andrew Jackson was just as vulgar as Bill Clinton. There's something fleshly and uncontrolled, and defiantly vulgar, about Clinton, which I think has been characteristic of his presidency. I think the presidency has lost a large part of its dignity in his tenure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: What We'll Remember | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...tend to engage in "face-to-face" interactions, in which they meet specifically to talk, often about personal concerns. Men tend to favor "side-by-side" relationships, in which conversation, which may be casual, occurs in the course of participating in a common activity. James R. Erlenbaugh, 65, a truck driver in suburban Chicago, is typical in that regard. He chats with his three best buddies as they fish, ride motorcycles and attend sports events together. It's the togetherness that matters. "I don't know what I'd do without my friends," he says. "It'd be a doggone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pal Power | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...bells for U.S. law enforcement personnel who recall their deeply frustrating experiences with the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996. Despite diplomatic pressure from Washington, the Saudis never allowed U.S. personnel access to the suspects they tried and summarily executed for their part in carrying out the truck bomb attack that killed 19 U.S. military personnel. U.S. investigators, however, have been quick to point out that the Yemeni experience has been nothing like the stonewalling by the Saudis; only that it has fallen well short of what has been requested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Yemen May Be Slow to Aid U.S. Bombing Probe | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

Apparently, the news service that provides raw voting data for the networks to interpret had been too hasty in extrapolating the results. To complicate matters, a truck on its way to deliver ballots for counting had gotten lost...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman and David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: In the Epic Electoral Battle, No One Wins | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

...toddler were about to get run over by a Mac truck, would the current President risk his life to save the toddler? If a well-endowed White House intern were about to get run over by a Mac truck would the current President risk his life to save the well-endowed intern? If both a toddler and a well-endowed intern were about to get run over by a Mac truck, who would the current president save first, the toddler or the intern...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: Prepping For 2004 | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

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