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It's difficult to imagine a working-class radical and avowed atheist even being elected to Congress in late-20 th -century America, much less sworn in.
The Lewinsky affair was a tricky issue for most liberal feminists, who were caught between protesting sexual harassment and supporting the president they had elected.
Although such a reporting relationship had been prescribed in the May 1998 presidential directive (after expressions of concern by Attorney General Reno, among others), that directive contained an exception that permitted the CSG to report directly to the principals if Berger so elected.
The NYT fronts an exclusive from the New York Senate campaign trenches: At a private fund-raiser organized by gay and lesbian supporters, Hillary Clinton said that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy crafted by her husband to govern gays in the military was a failure, and that if elected she would work to overturn it.
To Friedman's way of thinking, the question of whether a government has elected leaders or respects human rights has far less effect on its immediate prosperity than the question of whether it listens to the International Monetary Fund.