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...think of Pierre Trudeau as the first big-time postmodern politician. He loved to repudiate conventional partisan ideologies, and if in the end that served his partisan goals, well, there would be just the little Gallic upturn at the corners of his mouth. He had a near-perfect understanding of the possible uses of celebrity. With a little jacknife off the low board here if a photographer was positioned right, a lively judo tussle there (again, photographers were present), a rose in his buttonhole, a pretty woman on his arm, he knifed through dowdy Canadian politics like the classy skier...
...just charged rhetoric. In the last two years, Congress has been remarkably concerned with the welfare of businesses and employers, and has repeatedly attempted to limit access to justice for the poor and disadvantaged. Three bills stand out as examples of how this past Congress--and specifically the more partisan House of Representatives--has gone out of its way to hand out judicial plums to those who need them least, and to deny the protection of the courts to those with most to fear...
Even if the boom does roll on for a decade longer, there is a question of which approach, Bush's or Gore's, would leave the economy in the best shape to weather the shocks foreseeable a quarter-century or so ahead. In the view of the less partisan members of TIME's board, the answer is, neither. But the competing plans pose quite different answers to the question of how best to distribute the benefits--or more bluntly, to that fundamental political question, Who gets what...
...know the kids will be all right. These days our younger daughter sports a new T-shirt, courtesy of Grandma, that reads, SOMEDAY A WOMAN WILL BE PRESIDENT! Her big sister trades partisan insults with other sixth graders, who already identify themselves as Republicans or Democrats. And their two-year-old brother has actually been spotted watching C-SPAN. Maybe it's because Dad left the TV on, but hey, it's a start...
...pretty funny (and the audience was packed with partisan laughers). He told a joke about the guy in church who keeps calling out during services, "Use me, Lord, use me," whereupon the preacher sets the man to work scraping and painting the pews. Next Sunday, the man cries out from the congregation, "Use me, Lord - but only in an advisory capacity...