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There was a moment last week, though, when Washington seemed to be descending into an uglier version of its usual gun-control warfare. Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A's executive vice president, tore into Clinton by charging that he is "willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda." If that weren't inflammatory enough, LaPierre drove home his point in a separate interview by accusing the President of having "blood on his hands" for the death of a former Northwestern University basketball coach whose murderer slipped through existing gun-control laws. In the background of this...
...outlook for bank stocks couldn't be any uglier. We're a lock for higher short-term interest rates when the Fed meets March 21, and a rate boost or two after that seems likely before summer. Rising short-term rates squeeze bank profit margins and, more important, dampen loan demand. That's why bank stocks have been crashing faster than your favorite ATM, shedding 40% of their value since interest rates started climbing rapidly more than a year...
...doesn't get uglier than this in American politics: Management vs. Labor; Donkey vs. Elephant. That trend was reinforced on Monday with a new plan by the nation's largest association of business owners to step up its support of business-friendly congressional candidates. Portraying itself as the striving entrepreneur being bullied by both big labor and big government, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce unleashed its first-ever plan to donate directly to federal-level political campaigns; about $100,000 will be donated to each of 47 mostly Republican congressional candidates. The chamber says it is worried by many...
...many ways, Rudy and Hillary will be battling each other on the same centrist policy terrain. It will heighten the chance that the campaign will turn on personal politics--who gets uglier, and more rattled, in the charge and countercharge of a New York election. Giuliani won't hesitate to go negative. In 1997 he accused his overmatched opponent, Ruth Messinger, of giving a party in the 1970s for an Attica prison inmate; suggested she supported X-rated video stores; and all but blamed her for the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1957 move to Los Angeles. But Giuliani could pay a price...
Thus we see the uglier side of identity politics. I know nothing from your article about Beauregard's plans for the upcoming year or experience in the organization. I know only that she is the first woman to be elected president. By exalting her as the first woman, you have also pigeonholed her into her sex and diminished her ideas and record otherwise. BETH A. STEWART...