Word: reforms
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David Gottesman lives in Beachwood, Ohio, a town with a Jewish majority. This demographic fact is largely the result of a 1952 court ruling that ordered Beachwood's leaders to allow the building of a Reform temple. So naturally Gottesman assumed there would be little objection to a plan in 1996 to open two more synagogues, one for his own brand of Orthodox Judaism and another for a Hasidic group. He was mistaken. A majority of Beachwood's Jews, mostly Reform and Conservative, have fought his cause at town meetings, at the polls and in court with an obstinacy outstripping...
...pointing out the issues on which he has differed with Gore. That argument didn't play so well, however, because Bush was making it while traveling through California alongside his old rival, John McCain--who is closer to Lieberman than to Bush on issues like campaign-finance reform...
...Campaign finance reform is my favorite issue. If this former solicitor-in-chief can somehow convince me of his sincerity, that will go a long way. (Certainly there is no competition from Bush to be the president who gets McCain-Feingold through the McConnell roadblock.) Likewise the environment, where Gore's sincerity is unquestioned but his ability to effect real change is questionable. The corporation-bashing is a turn-off -this economy wouldn't have boomed much without big business - but then again, corporations are quite able to take care of themselves...
...gloating at the mass of celebrity-hood in attendance. "Smoke and mirrors, Tinseltown and Hollywood. We fooled 'em again," he said surveying the crowd. "Here were are using the resources of the entertainment community and the resource of celebrity to support arts education, First Amendment rights and campaign finance reform...
...clear directive has crystallized for the vice president: He's got to show the voters who he is, what he plans to do for the country, and, perhaps most importantly, that while he has played a critical role in the successes of the Clinton administration (economic optimism, welfare reform, a diminished deficit), his own administration would remain unscathed by the lying, adultery and deception that so indelibly mark his boss...