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...tempting to mine the political metaphor here, since Kerry, the serious, cerebral Senator, is trying to steer a course to victory in a race against a President who is so often guided by his instincts. But that's not why Kerry seems so intent in an interview with TIME on setting the record straight about the whole blindfolded-sailing anecdote. Talk to Kerry about his childhood and he quickly goes on defense, making a point of describing his family as very normal and fun loving. When informed how consistently his friends and siblings described him as a serious...
...interesting to see if Edwards' presence on the ticket leads to more tough talk on trade and an appeal - which failed for Al Gore in 2000 - to old-fashioned populism.) But as one former U.S. diplomat warns, if Kerry wins "the U.S. won't sign Kyoto, the land-mine treaty, join the International Criminal Court, or double its foreign-aid budget. I'm not belittling style, but the change will be more style than substance." Europeans hope that's off the mark, and that when the votes are counted, the U.S. will again convince the world that America's limitless...
...cooperate when we need to. Whereas our approach was, we should cooperate whenever we can and act on our own when we need to. Very often it led us to the same place. I went out there in Bosnia, Kosovo and Haiti. I didn't join the land-mine treaty because I thought they were being unfair to our soldiers. I waited until 2000 to join the [international] criminal court because I had to get those amendments to make sure that our soldiers wouldn't be used as political pawns...
...maybe that ancient heart is mine. If so, thanks for the transplant, Encores...
...strangest thing wasn’t that I devoted my life to squash; it was the fact that the whole time I covered it, I was terrified I would mess up. So why was I a sportswriter if I was scared of exposing some horrible inadequacy of mine...