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...candidates told voters everything they needed to know about the way each man will pose and paint himself through the final two-week act of this election. Here, laid bare, was the choice: Who do you want to tame Washington for the next four years? The lover or the fighter...
...everything right," says a former Clinton aide. "Side with the Republicans, even if the Democrats feel betrayed. Then fillet the Republicans and save the Democrats." Complains a Democrat close to the campaign: "He needs to talk about this stuff. You can't just say you're a fighter. You have to say you're a fighter and a winner...
...battleground states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. Gore had only to think back to Jimmy Carter's 1980 re-election campaign for a time when high oil prices helped defeat a Democrat. By getting ahead on the issue, Gore could defuse the threat while burnishing his image as a fighter for the little guy. And when his opponent attacked the move, Gore could again paint Bush and Cheney as a ticket "of Big Oil, by Big Oil and for Big Oil." When Bush and Cheney stressed their plan to increase domestic oil production by opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
...faults in training. Today's medical or surgical residencies are like years on end of Marine boot camp, where the values of the group are instilled at the expense of the values brought to the experience by each individual entering it. In the presence of teachers who exemplify the fighter-pilot mentality of success in the face of mortal danger, the idealism and even the humanity become imperiled. Too often, they are leached out in the long indoctrination. The best become like their teachers: they worship at the shrine of scientific objectivity, and they wrap themselves in a mantle...
...Rose describes himself as fighter, a guy who will do anything...