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...anything; that I'd have to live off some pension or maybe even sell pencils on a street corner." Having recovered beyond anyone's expectations--he almost died from his wounds three times during the years he spent recovering--Dole considers it a "badge of something" that he can button his shirts and dress himself without assistance. "I don't like people helping me," Dole says. "Self-reliance and all that. But I do envy Danny," he adds, a reference to Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, another war hero whose remaining arm is strong enough "to cut food, which...
...Leadership is more than a slogan, more than the synthetic politics of hot-button issues and feel-good rhetoric devised by focus groups. Tempered by experience, broadened through historical perspective, a leader is willing to take the long view and to risk short-term unpopularity in pursuit of long-term objectives. He is someone comfortable with himself, sure of his core values...In short, someone very much like you and someone very much unlike Bill Clinton...
...Representative Newt Gingrich emerged from a two-hour White House meeting today without an agreement about whether to temporarily extend the federal government's debt in the absence of a budget. The issue of "linkage," once a term of art in the State Department, is now the hot button on the budget. Even as the House and Senate prepare to reconcile their respective GOP-proposed budget bills, President Clinton is threatening to veto the result. Gingrich nevertheless sounded an optimistic note after the meeting with the President. "We discussed budget issues in general terms," said the Speaker, "and that...
...latter ventures no further than things liberals love to hate. He takes us through thirty years of headline news and hot-button issues with takes that are equally well-worn. Standard fare, for instance, asks why John Hinckley was dubbed insane. After all, he wanted to shoot Reagan and date Jodie Foster. Other subjects include abortion doctor assassin John Hill, white guys with pent-up hostilty, and, of course...
...Catholicism. "I continue to be amazed at the resiliency of this, the largest spiritual community in the world," says Ostling. "What other institution could have survived such turbulence over a generation and survived with loyalties largely intact? Our polling shows the usual wide disagreement with church teachings on hot-button issues, but the news here is the unshakable lay devotion at parish level." Ostling saw that devotion close up, interviewing would-be priests in Missouri and parishioners in Maryland, and even chatting with Father Greeley in Michigan. Might he pop up in a future Greeley novel? "No, it will...