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...highly ambitious attempt to correct some ancient inequities in the system, ended in a revolt by G.O.P. legislators and business allies. Bush was able to salvage a tax cut from the fiasco, but he told TIME last fall that the experience taught him that "the status quo is really powerful. In times when there is not a crisis, it's hard to get people to act boldly." And Bush knows from watching his father what happens when a desire for boldness is applied to a vice-presidential pick. Two words: Dan Quayle...
...innovators [TIME 100: THE NEXT WAVE, July 17]: It speaks well for the human mind and spirit that innovators and revolutionaries continue to exist. Though many people can't tolerate anything "too different," it's encouraging to see how diverse our creative nature can be when disdaining the status quo. The type of innovation you described resonates with that sweet Don't Fence Me In melody. CAMERON NORMAN Grand Marais, Minn...
...anticipates yet another new politics, born of a wide and deep disgruntlement with the status quo. Her evidence for the coming revolution is thin. The low voter turnouts she and her shadow conveners bewail as signs of disgust might just as plausibly be taken for the sleepy indifference of a fat and happy populace. But her larger charge--that the two parties, in thrall to a self-satisfied elite, have become homogeneous, to the detriment of a robust political debate--is far more plausible. Anyone who doubts it should be forced to explain the difference between George Bush's "compassionate...
...presidency had become a Republican entitlement, a fat city country club. Who wants a restoration of that? Both Gore and Bush invite dynastic metaphors: Gore represents continuation of the House of Clinton. In choosing Cheney, W. implies the restoration of the House of the Georges, the status quo ante, a return to the land as it was before the time of Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky, though without the recession that ousted Bush the Father. Bush's choice of Cheney thus gives to the dynastic implication a light flavoring of revenge, of vindication...
That's the paradoxical thing about innovators. They show reverence for tradition but disdain for the status quo. Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, profiled by staff writer Michele Orecklin, borrows ideas from literature and anthropology but animates them with materials provided by new technology. In that vein, Susan Casey, a TIME Inc. editor at large who designed our new sister publication eCompany Now, paid a visit to typeface designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, who take classical styles and put electricity into them to create the hieroglyphics of the cyber-era. Staff writer Joel Stein writes about industrial designer...