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...disagreement has been the sense of strangeness, of pure unfamiliarity," he says. "The communications revolution will not wash out the important differences, but we will learn to grade our differences in order of importance." Rached Ghannouchi, an Arab philosopher from North Africa, argues in a Webzine called The Electronic Whip that it is imperative that the inhabitants of the small, networked village the world has become find a way to understand one another. "Otherwise," he says, rather apocalyptically, "we are all doomed to annihilation...
...summer turned to fall and Clinton entered into protracted budget negotiations with Gingrich and the G.O.P. leadership, Morris kept predicting that a deal was imminent. By September, he said. Then by Halloween. Morris was back-channeling with then majority whip Trent Lott, but Lott couldn't deliver. Morris wanted a deal desperately. He thought it was essential to Clinton's re-election. He was wrong. Stephanopoulos and Gore were arguing that Clinton had to stand up to Gingrich on Medicare. Clinton agreed. It was the shrewdest move he made all year...
...moderator of a recent debate between Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone and Rudy Boschwitz, the Republican he upset six years ago, said she needed "a whip and a chair" to keep the pair apart as they argued over federal farm policy. Indeed, the two staged a ferocious fight for the Minnesota Senate seat. In the end, former political science professor Wellstone proved that his '90 election was no fluke, and also that there is a place in the Senate for an old-fashioned liberal. He was the only incumbent Senator up for re-election who voted against the welfare-reform bill...
...terms Talent has established himself as a leading fiscal conservative, serving as class whip in both the 103rd and 104th Congresses. During that time he has also served on three committees, including National Security, where he looks out for his district's McDonnell Douglas Corp., which employs thousands of his constituents. An early welfare-reform proponent, in 1994 he proposed to cut off funds for unmarried mothers younger than...
Fattah swept the 1994 election with 84% of the vote--the widest margin of any new Congressman. In a majority African-American district, running against a Republican, he's favored to do it again. Popular in his district, Fattah was also elected whip of the Congressional Black Caucus...