National Journal articles from November 1999

National Journal archives from November 1999

THE MAYOR, THE ART MUSEUM, AND THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.(New York, New York's mayor Rudolph Giuliani; Brooklyn Museum of Art)
November 6, 1999... As one who doesn't much like Catholic-bashing "art," and doesn't dig pigs and sharks suspended in formaldehyde, and doesn't want taxpayers dragooned into subsidizing whatever in-your-face, sensationalistic stuff titillates the artsy set, and...

STILL NEEDED: ANOTHER KIND OF BANKING BILL.(revoking the Glass-Steagall Act)
November 6, 1999... Last week's agreement to scrap some Depression-era restrictions on finance has generally been applauded, and not just because it was a surprising piece of political wizardry. Those who take an interest in such things have mostly welcomed the...

Rules of the Game.(2000 presidential campaigns)(includes related article regarding nominating calendar)(Statistical Data Included)
November 6, 1999... AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES HAVE DISCOVERED, THE NOMINATING SYSTEM FAVORS SOME HOPEFULS BUT NOT OTHERS. Consider, for a moment, this bit of campaign 2000 trivia: Barring a last-minute entry into the Republican presidential race, more GOP...

SPECIAL REPORT: Bill Bradley.(presidential candidate's personal and political background)
November 6, 1999... BORN: Crystal City, Mo., July 28, 1943 FAMILY: Wife, Ernestine Schlant; daughter, Theresa Anne; stepdaughter, Stephanie RELIGION: Presbyterian EDUCATION: Princeton University, B.A. American history (thesis on Harry S. Truman's...

SPECIAL REPORT: Al Gore.(presidential candidate's personal and political background)
November 6, 1999... BORN: Carthage, Tenn., March 31,1948 FAMILY: Wife, Mary Elizabeth "Tipper"; daughters, Kristin, Karenna, and Sarah; son, Albert III RELIGION: Baptist EDUCATION: Harvard University, B.A. government (thesis on the impact of...

SPECIAL REPORT: Gary Bauer.
November 6, 1999... BORN: Covington, Ky., May 4, 1946 FAMILY: Wife, Carol Hoke; daughters, Elyse and Sarah; son, Zachary RELIGION: Baptist EDUCATION: Georgetown College, Ky., B.A. political science and economics, 1968; Georgetown University Law...

SPECIAL REPORT: George W. Bush.
November 6, 1999... BORN: New Haven, Conn., July 6, 1946 FAMILY: Wife, Laura; daughters, Barbara and Jenna RELIGION: Methodist EDUCATION: Yale University, B.A. history, 1968; Harvard Business School, M.B.A., 1975 MILITARY SERVICE: First...

SPECIAL REPORT: Steve Forbes.
November 6, 1999... BORN: Morristown, N.J., July 18, 1947 FAMILY: Wife, Sabina; daughters, Roberta, Sabina, Catherine, Moira, and Elizabeth RELIGION: Episcopalian EDUCATION: Princeton University, B.A. history, 1970 MILITARY SERVICE: Private, New...

SPECIAL REPORT: Orrin Hatch.
November 6, 1999... BORN: Pittsburgh, March 22, 1934 FAMILY: Wife, Elaine Hansen; sons, Brent, Scott, and Jess; daughters, Marcia, Kimberly, and Alysa RELIGION: Mormon EDUCATION: Brigham Young University, B.S. American history, 1959; University of...

SPECIAL REPORT: Alan Keyes.
November 6, 1999... BORN: New York, N.Y., Aug. 7, 1950 FAMILY: Wife, Jocelyn Marcel; sons, Francis and Andrew; daughter, Maya Jeane RELIGION: Catholic EDUCATION: Harvard University, B.A. government affairs, 1972; Harvard University, Ph.D. government...

SPECIAL REPORT: John McCain.(presidential candidate's personal and political background)
November 6, 1999... BORN: Panama Canal Zone, Aug. 29, 1936 FAMILY: Wife, Cindy; adopted sons by first marriage, Doug, Andrew; daughter by first marriage, Sydney; daughter by second marriage, Meghan; sons by second marriage, Jack, Jimmy; adopted daughter by...

SPECIAL REPORT: Pat Buchanan.(presidential candidate's personal and political background)
November 6, 1999... BORN: Washington, Nov. 2, 1938 FAMILY: Wife, Shelley Ann RELIGION: Roman Catholic EDUCATION: Georgetown University, B.A. English and philosophy, 1961; Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, M.S., 1962 MILITARY...

SPECIAL REPORT.(presidential elections results between 1968 and 1996; political affiliation of governors and congressional members)(Statistical Data Included)
November 6, 1999... 1968 NIXON HUMPHREY WALLACE % ELECTORAL % ELECTORAL % ELECTORAL Ala. 14.0% -- 18.7% -- 65.9% 10 Alaska 45.3 3 42.6...

High Anxiety on the Hill.(political balance of power and 2000 election)(Statistical Data Included)
November 6, 1999... PARTY LEADERS IN CONGRESS ARE INTENT ON INFLUENCING NEXT YEAR'S ELECTIONS, BUT THE RESULTS ARE OUT OF THEIR HANDS. Take a good look at the 106th Congress, because the prospects are good that the new Congress elected one year from now will...

HERE'S THE BOOK ON KEY RACES IN 2000.(congressional elections)
November 6, 1999... Elections are almost always preceded by grandiose generalizations about their importance, and with next November's balloting falling in the year 2000, the temptation to rhapsodize will be all the harder to resist. But make no mistake' A lot is...

A `GREAT PLAYER,' OR A PUPPET?(House Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. C.W. "Bill" Young)
November 6, 1999... In 1995, when Republicans took over the House and then-Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., became chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, he found in his new desk an expensive bottle of liquor left for him by the previous chairman. Early this...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
November 6, 1999... The 10th Is the Adjournment Target Notwithstanding the remaining budget problems, Republican leaders reaffirmed this week that they want Congress to finish its work and go home for the year on Wednesday, Nov. 10, the day before the Veterans...

HOUSE-SENATE COMMITTEE ACTION.
November 6, 1999... * OVERVIEW Congress marched toward adjournment this week, but in the committee trenches, field commanders were already planning for next year's battles. House and Senate aviation conferees circled one another in a budget fight, while a...

Hot Bills.(congressional bills)
November 6, 1999... Here is the status of major non-appropriations legislation on the congressional front burner: HEALTH CARE House: Approved a bipartisan patients' rights bill (H.R. 2723) on Oct. 7, 275-151, then attached it to the GOP leadership's...

Hill People.(Capitol Hill)
November 6, 1999... House During college, Andrew E. Meisner spent his summers volunteering at a substance abuse treatment facility in Detroit. Today, he's combating drug abuse at the national level for the Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America in...

People.(government officials' career transitions)
November 6, 1999... Consulting Game Corporate hackers, beware: The nation's top cybercop is going private-sector. Scott Charney, the chief of the Justice Department's Computer Grime and Intellectual Property Section, is taking his hacker-busting expertise off...

CLINTON: BUILD TRUCKS THAT SAVE BUCKS.(President Bill Clinton; increasing fuel efficiency)(Statistical Data Included)
November 6, 1999... Transportation The Clinton Administration is getting ready to unveil a major new public-private partnership that could save the military, businesses, and taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year in fuel costs while significantly...

Hotline Extra.(political activity)
November 6, 1999... Tough Shoes to Fill When Rhode Island Republican Gov. Lincoln Almond appointed Warwick Mayor Lincoln Chafee to serve the 14 months left in the term of his late father, GOP Sen. John H. Chafee; several Democrats "immediately accused" Almond...

CALIFORNIA COUNTS.(presidential primary)
November 6, 1999... THIS POLITICAL SEASON, THE STATE WILL MATTER MUCH FOR THE SURVIVORS OF IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. SACRAMENTO, Calif.--Because its presidential primary fell so late in the campaign season (and because so many other states moved up the dates of...

CAN A DREAMER ALSO FIGHT?(former Senator Bill Bradley and the presidential campaign)
November 6, 1999... SOME DEMOCRATS WONDER IF LAID-BACK BRADLEY COULD DUKE IT OUT WITH GEORGE W. AND CONGRESS. Bill Clinton must be feeling awfully neglected. His name was hardly mentioned during the two town-hall forums in Hanover, N.H., last week. That's...

Lessons in Courage.(social action against the Mafia in Palermo, Italy)
November 13, 1999... Americans who question the value of voting and participating in public affairs should look at what's happened in other countries. In places as far apart as Russia, Colombia, and Italy, criminal organizations exercise enormous power over the...

CORRECTIONS.(articles in issues published on Oct. 30, 1999 and Nov. 6, 1999)(Correction Notice)
November 13, 1999... A recent article on banking deregulation (10/30/99) included the wrong base year in a description of banks' declining share of the nation's financial assets. The description (p. 3129) should read: "To grasp just how profoundly the world has...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
November 13, 1999... ABORTIONS AND COMMON SENSE Stuart Taylor Jr.'s musings about the lack of "common sense" embodied in laws banning partial-birth abortion [10/9/99, p. 2865] represent another twisted example of so-called modern thinking. Logic, religion,...

HOW I HIT THE CLASS ACTION JACKPOT.(allegedly faulty laptop computer)
November 13, 1999... As the lucky co-owner of a Toshiba laptop computer, I should be tickled pink: I apparently qualify for a cash rebate of $309.90. This thanks to an Oct. 29 settlement in which Toshiba agreed to spend at least $1 billion to end a class action...

WHAT DOLLAR BILLS CAN'T BUY.(family income and child well-being)
November 13, 1999... Until this year, Al Gore was a clone of Bill Bradley, or vice versa. Primary campaigns, however, have a wonderful way of sharpening differences. Last month, Gore and Bradley unveiled their plans to reduce child poverty. In many respects, their...

Speaking Up for Hastert.(House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert)
November 13, 1999... DEMOCRATS CALL HIM AN EMPTY SUIT, BUT MANY REPUBLICANS SAY HE DID AS WELL AS COULD BE EXPECTED UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES. Expectations were low last Jan. 6, when Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., was elevated from obscurity to the House...

Byte-Size Taxes.(tax policies for the high-technology industry)(includes related article on electronic commerce taxation)
November 13, 1999... THE OLD ECONOMY'S TAX CODES DON'T ALWAYS APPLY TO THE NEW ECONOMY'S SERVICES AND COMMERCE. AND THAT SUITS HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES JUST FINE. When tax assessors look at a home, they typically estimate the value of the land that it's on, the...

Drugs on the Web.(electronic commerce)(Statistical Data Included)
November 13, 1999... YOU DON'T NEED A PRESCRIPTION TO GET MEDICATION ON THE INTERNET. YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO BE SICK. CLICK A MOUSE, WHIP OUT A CREDIT CARD, AND FOREIGN PHARMACIES ARE AT YOUR DISPOSAL. Suffer from high blood pressure? Chronic back pain?...

THE FAT LADY STILL HASN'T SUNG.(Pres Bill Clinton and the budget)
November 13, 1999... Folks on Capitol Hill who had planned to adjourn on Nov. 10 forgot one fundamental rule: The budget ain't over till Bill Clinton signs. And for much of the week, President Clinton was showing little desire to sign the last-minute budget...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
November 13, 1999... NOVEMBER 8-11 All Eyes Are on the Exits The adjournment stampede extended beyond the Nov. 10 deadline that Republican leaders had hoped to meet. Although White House and congressional negotiators were making progress, none of the five...

HOUSE-SENATE COMMITTEE ACTION.(conservation, sex workers, disaster insurance)
November 13, 1999... NOVEMBER 8-11 [] OVERVIEW Congress entered its legislative homestretch with marathon, high-level negotiations on spending bills, but in the committee rooms, an aura of history and urgency of a different sort prevailed. Political...

Hot Bills.(legislative bills regarding tax reform, health care and other issues)
November 13, 1999... Here is the status of major non-appropriations legislation on the congressional front burner: SATELLITE TELEVISION House: Approved the conference report on H.R. 1554 on Nov. 9, 411-8. Senate: Action pending on the conference...

Hill People.
November 13, 1999... Senate Rebecca Rejtman Bennett, a children's rights advocate and international trade lawyer, is excited about her move to Capitol Hill. "I had always read about it, and I thought it was about time I tried it out," said Bennett, who's the...

LONGING FOR THE DAYS OF IMPEACHMENT?(courtesy in the United States Senate)
November 13, 1999... As lawmakers scramble to put a stake through this congressional session, at least one notion is incontrovertible: The Senate is far different at the end of the year from the place it was at the beginning. Its character has undergone an...

ANOTHER HEADACHE FOR THE INS.(Immigration and Naturalization Service)(includes related article on Pres Bill Clinton's mathematical ability)
November 13, 1999... At a time when its past management problems have put the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Congress's crosshairs, a new and embarrassing blunder is bringing the INS even more flak. In particular, critics are knocking the agency's...

THE PERPETUAL VP.
November 13, 1999... At the risk of seeming a wee bit premature, dare we suggest that come next spring, there could be a third way, of sorts, for the Democrats to hold on to the White House in 2000? If it's an election about "issues" and "reforms" and...

Drug expenditures: Take off the green eyeshades.
November 13, 1999... With much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth, a Greek chorus of managed care executives is chanting a recurrent refrain: Prescription drug costs are spiraling out of control. Customers are demanding treatments that will raise their quality...

CASSIDY CRUNCHES THE COMPETITION.(Washington, D.C. lobbying firms)
November 13, 1999... Thanks to its colossal list of corporate and university clients, Cassidy & Associates Inc. took in more money than any Washington lobbying shop during the first six months of 1999. From January to June, Cassidy & Associates reported lobbying...

FROM THE K STREET CORRIDOR.
November 13, 1999... Anxious About Encryption Worried that federal regulators may attempt to undercut an agreement on encryption policy, the computer-industry coalition that persuaded the White House to loosen rules on the export of data-scrambling technology...

VIEWS ON PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS.
November 13, 1999... VIEWS ON PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS Dueling Democrats... If the presidential election were held today, for which Democratic candidate would you vote: Al Gore or Bill Bradley? (margin of error [+ or -] 5 percentage points; Gallup...

People.(career transition, Washington D.C. personalities)
November 13, 1999... Corporate Life One of the chief architects of Foggy Bottom's global vice squad is going corporate. Jonathan Winer is leaving the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs to join the Washington office...

HEY, BILL, LEARN FROM STEVE.(Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates; America Online Chief Executive Officer Steve Case)
November 13, 1999... TECHNOLOGY On Friday, Nov. 5, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared Microsoft Corp. to be a ruthless monopoly, and now seems ready to fit the company for regulatory leg irons or even subject it to the guillotine of divestiture. Microsoft...

THE CRACK-BABY MYTH.
November 13, 1999... DRUGS When crack cocaine hit the streets in the mid-1980s, researchers predicted deformity and irreparable brain damage for a generation of babies born to crack users. The media pounced on the forecasts and began measuring the toll the...

INFORMATION IS POWER, FOR PATIENTS.
November 13, 1999... MEDICINE "Patients' rights" and "power to the patient" are slogans heard often in Washington nowadays, as politicians strive to give people more choices about how and where they get health care. But the ability to sue a doctor, or the...

LIKE IT OR NOT, IT'S SHOW TIME.(World Trade Organization conference in Seattle, Washington, in November 1999)
November 13, 1999... Let's face it. The meeting of world trade ministers that's scheduled to begin on Nov. 30 in Seattle is a failure waiting to happen. The gathering is ill-timed. There is no consensus, in Washington or any other capital, on the objectives of the...

HOTLINE EXTRA.
November 13, 1999... Substance or Style? The (Memphis, Tenn.) Commercial Appeal reports on the "importance of the South and especially its black voters" if Al Gore is to win the Democratic nomination for President. Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile outlined...

THE THIRD PRIMARY MAY BE THE ONE TO WATCH.
November 13, 1999... In a classic example of the law of unintended consequences, the mad rush by states to schedule early presidential primaries has served to make the venerable New Hampshire primary even more important than it was before. Although the frontrunners...

BIG IDEAS AND CAREFUL COUNTERPUNCHES.(political positions of Bill Bradley and Vice President Al Gore)
November 13, 1999... After months of shrugging off Vice President Al Gore's gibes, Bill Bradley is beginning to respond--in his own distinctive way, naturally. Although still insisting he won't engage in personal attacks or other forms of negative campaigning, the...

OFF-YEAR DIDN'T MEAN HO-HUM.
November 13, 1999... Results of the 1999 off-year elections are in. Any messages? The big story was the GOP capture of the Virginia General Assembly. Republicans held their majority in the state Senate and took control, for the first time, of the House of...

JOINT CHIEFS NEED TO BE MORE GUTSY.
November 20, 1999... A group of academics is sounding the alarm about the widening gap between America's civilian and military societies. But far more worrisome is the narrowing distance between the senior uniformed leaders and their civilian bosses at the top of...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
November 20, 1999... A People item (11/13/99, p. 3337) reported that now-Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., upset Democratic Rep. Jim Slattery in a 1994 House race. Slattery retired at the end of his term in 1994, and brownback won the open-seat contest.

SEEKING DIVERSITY WITHOUT RACIAL PREFERENCES.
November 20, 1999... Champions of racially preferential affirmative action in university admissions have swung from denying (unconvincingly) that double standards exist to asserting (more plausibly) that colorblind admissions would produce dramatic and destructive...

BACK THE CHINA TRADE DEAL--FOR THE RIGHT REASONS.
November 20, 1999... Suppose I tell you that America's economic gains from the new trade pact with China, announced this week, will be next to nothing. Suppose, however, that China (authoritarian, tyrannical, serial violator of human rights) will gain a great deal....

Sovereignty's Struggle.(globalism)
November 20, 1999... A SMALLER GLOBE FACES OLD AND NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO, OR WHAT, IS REALLY IN CONTROL OF NATIONAL DESTINY. In 1980, a third-party candidate with a shock of silver hair hoped to ride into the White House on a wave of disaffection with the...

POLL READINGS: VIEWS ON SOVEREIGNTY.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
November 20, 1999... Most Americans don't buy into the traditional concept of national sovereignty, according to a recent Harris Interactive Poll. Many believe that the United States and other countries have a right--even a duty--to intervene in cases in which...

Governments Off-Line.
November 20, 1999... IN CYBERSPACE, BORDERS AND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY LOSE MEANING, AND THE INDIVIDUAL REIGNS. The sovereign power of nation-states and national governments rose in lockstep with artillery and the Industrial Revolution--and will probably shrink...

10 SOVEREIGNTY ISSUES NOW BEFORE THE WTO.(World Trade Organization)
November 20, 1999... Banana Splits Small Caribbean nations, along with former French and British colonies in Africa and the Pacific, depended heavily for years for their national income on banana exports to Europe, which granted its former colonies trade...

Not-So-Sacred Borders.(national sovereignty and Kosovo conflict)
November 20, 1999... NATO'S INTERVENTION IN KOSOVO SET DOWN A NEW MARKER: SOVEREIGN STATES CAN NO LONGER EXPECT FRONTIERS TO BE INVIOLATE. As the United States and its NATO allies stood on the brink of war against Yugoslavia in the waning days of March, lawyers...

The Whole World's Watching.(war crimes)
November 20, 1999... IN FITS AND STARTS, THE WORLD IS BUILDING A FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT THE PROSECUTION OF ALL WAR CRIMES. The decades-long struggle to erect a system of international laws and institutions to bring individuals accused of war crimes to justice...

PINOCHET'S ARREST HELPS CHILE MEND.(Chilean General Augusto Pinochet)
November 20, 1999... When Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Chile's ironfisted dictator for 17 years, was arrested last year and appeared on television screens worldwide as an old, feeble man, out of uniform and ailing, the Chilean establishment was struck with profound...

ECONOMIC INTERESTS: IT'S ALL ABOUT POWER.(World Trade Organization and national sovereignty)
November 20, 1999... TO SOME CRITICS, THE WTO SEEMS LIKE THE DIPLOMATIC EQUIVALENT OF THE GLOB THAT SWALLOWED THE WORLD. During the first week of December, the thousands of protesters decrying the World Trade Organization in the streets of Seattle will be...

The Greening of Free Trade.(World Trade Organization and environmental movement)
November 20, 1999... TWO MILLENNIAL MOVEMENTS-SAVING THE PLANET AND UNSHACKLING WORLD COMMERCE-SEEM, INCREASINGLY, TO BE AT ODDS. When the World Trade Organization meets in Seattle this month and next, perhaps the most forceful opposition it will encounter to...

10 QUIET BUT POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL BODIES.
November 20, 1999... Not Exactly Galloping Gourmands The Codex Alimentarius Commission is not, as its name suggests, a medieval conclave of Latin-speaking prelates, but a group of people who meet in Geneva and Rome to make rules about food. Originating as an...

A BUDGET DEAL WITH POLITICAL COVER FOR ALL.
November 20, 1999... After weeks of bickering and dickering, congressional and White House negotiators near midnight on Nov. 17 settled on a muddled budget deal that gave each side a little, disappointed each side a little, and left the partisan dynamics largely...

LEGISLATIVE SESSION WRAP-UP.
November 20, 1999... OVERVIEW The first session of the 106th Congress started in January with an impeached President facing trial in the Senate and deep partisan wounds that seemed as if they might never heal. With such an acrimonious beginning, it was perhaps...

Hill People.(Capitol Hill)
November 20, 1999... House Minority Staff Counsel Faith Weiss has left the Government Reform Committee to join the Natural Resources Defense Council. Weiss, 34, has worked on some unique projects on her road to the NRDC. In 1994, she joined the White House...

KNOCKING ON MEDICARE'S DOOR.(lobbying for Medicare financing)
November 20, 1999... For months, members of Congress and their staffs have been whipsawed by health care lobbyists peddling horror stories about the impact of Medicare cuts that were mandated under the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. This month, Congress and the White...

FROM THE K STREET CORRIDOR.(Washington DC lobbyists)
November 20, 1999... The New Team: Quinn and Gillespie In a surprise move, Edward Gillespie, the president of Policy Impact Communications--a very successful affiliate of the high flying lobbying firm of Barbour Griffith & Rogers--is leaving to launch a new...

MONOPOLY MONEY.(litigator David Boies)
November 20, 1999... David Boies, the superlitigator who avoids computers and disdains e-mail, slashed his $600-an-hour fee in half to lead the Justice Department into battle against Microsoft Corp. Over the past year, government rules limited his payment to no...

People.
November 20, 1999... In the Tanks They came, they saw, they lobbied... they founded a think tank. Silicon Valley is following the example of many other business interests by establishing the Washington-based Internet Policy Institute, launched Nov. 9 with the...

THE ELECTRIC CHAIR ON THE HOT SEAT.(moral aspects of electric chair)
November 20, 1999... More than 100 years ago, the state of New York and the rest of the nation embarked on a progressive movement to improve American society and to reform government. In 1888, New York's Legislature sought to humanize its method of executing...

THE LIFE OF A NETWORK POLITICAL DIRECTOR.(television news)
November 20, 1999... Mark Halperin, the political director at ABC News, refers to himself as "a man out of time." He lives and breathes politics, even though, he acknowledges, the public's interest in such matters "is greatly diminished." In some respects, the...

Hotline Extra.(political candidates' activities)
November 20, 1999... Garden-Variety Jock Envy In the days following Bill Bradley's celebrity-filled fund-raiser at Madison Square Garden, which featured Bradley endorsements from numerous NBA stars, the media began scrutinizing the role of the former New York...

WORRISOME SIGNS FOR REPUBLICANS IN 2000.(party affiliation of men and women)
November 20, 1999... Since the early 1980s, the "gender gap" has become something of a constant in American politics, a sort of half-empty and half-full situation for each party. Republicans have had problems attracting female voters, whereas Democrats have had...

MAYBE HILLARY SHOULD CALL IT QUITS.(Hillary Rodham Clinton's quest to be senator)
November 20, 1999... NEW YORK--The buzz among New York state politicians is that Hillary Rodham Clinton may be planning to shut down her exploratory committee and abandon her quest for a Senate seat from New York. There has been no hint that the first lady's...

CLEARING AN OBSTACLE FOR GEORGE W.(affirmative action and presidential candidate George W. Bush)
November 20, 1999... In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 209, which ended the state's affirmative action program. It was a triumph for such conservatives as Ward Connerly, the measure's chief sponsor--and an African-American. "For black people and our...