Word: reforms
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...First Lady in a similar light. They point to the new book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton," in which former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan makes the case that it was the First Lady's inability to do business with other Democrats that doomed her attempts at health care reform. Look for both sides to increase attempts to make their candidate warmer and fuzzier - and for more polls to find out whether any of this image-making will have an effect...
...juvenile-justice crime bill. Both parties have internal divisions on the gun issue. There are plenty of pro-N.R.A Democrats, mostly from Southern states, and gun-controlling Republicans in Northern pockets. Even G.O.P. House leaders are split. Speaker Dennis Hastert and Conference Chair J.C. Watts favor movement toward reform, while majority whip Tom DeLay and majority leader Dick Armey stay hostile to any such legislation. Some Democrats may want the gun-control issue more than they want a legislative solution...
...future under the new President, whose Democratic Progressive Party (D.P.P.) has a history of espousing Taiwanese independence. China has long threatened invasion if Taiwan declares independence, and it waged a strong war of words against Chen's candidacy. This culminated last Wednesday in an attack by Zhu Rongji, the reform-minded Premier, normally a moderate regarding Taiwan. Zhu warned voters in Taiwan against "impulse" voting: "Otherwise I'm afraid you won't get another opportunity to regret." He said Chinese were prepared to "shed blood" to protect their territory, and dismissed Western military analysts who say China is still years...
...yacht packed with vacationing millionaires off the coast of St. Bart's is an unlikely laboratory for social-policy reform. So perhaps it was the Caribbean sea breeze or the free-flowing 1945 Mouton-Rothschild that got Michael Saylor, the 35-year-old CEO of the high-tech company MicroStrategy, thinking about how to amend the inequities in higher education. He shared his thoughts over sea bass and chocolate souffle. "And by the end of the evening," he recalls, "I knew I'd hit on the next big thing in education...
BUSH: (via e-mail) "Both you and I have made a number of campaign finance reform proposals. But before we debate these changes, it is important for Americans to know whether the current campaign finance laws have been obeyed...Thank you for your e-mail. This Internet of yours is a wonderful invention." March...