Word: reforms
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...back Bush), he also carried a contingent of people voting against the GOP establishment, a group likely to back McCain. As for Forbes' future, if his last repositioning is anything to go by, there'll be no surprise if he returns in 2004 - as a champion of campaign-finance reform...
...primaries, and polls list education as the most important issue among Democratic voters. What remains to be seen is whether the plan will fare better than previous big-issue liberal proposals that failed to rescue Bradley from the shadows of John McCain and Al Gore. Bradley's health care reform and child-poverty-alleviation proposals didn't inspire a noticeable chunk of Democrats, while campaign finance reform, once one of his most popular themes, was somehow gobbled up as a campaign issue by McCain...
Crew survived longer than most, but the typical school reform takes five years to show results. As districts bob from leader to leader, teachers and parents find themselves stuck in a system that changes course more often than most kids change book bags. Says Arlene Ackerman, superintendent in Washington: "Teachers understandably are not willing to invest in a reform when they know it won't even have a chance to take root...
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Ever since Pat Buchanan ran off and joined the Reform Party--that great untethered life raft for political misfits--the Republican Party has been missing a certain something. George W. Bush and John McCain are tediously moderate, and the alternatives have sometimes seemed a self-negating rack of eight balls. But last week, as Orrin Hatch quit, Gary Bauer joined Pat Boone in the Unhip Hall of Fame and Steve Forbes seemed suddenly passe, Alan Keyes was poised to become the new leader of the American fringe...