Few people ever see Bob Dole like this, compassionately speaking to several dozen survivors of prostate cancer. For this politician on the run, whose malignancy was diagnosed in 1991, the visit is no drop-by. Dole stays more than two hours, his hard edges softening a bit. "The one thing you learn, I think, more than anything else," he says, "is it's good to get together from time to time with people who've had the same experience and try to see what we can do to help each other."
Dole's famously cranky wit cannot resist a jab or two. "I didn't think...
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