Politicians do penance in places like Harlem and the South Bronx. They tour and deplore and promise, and very little ever changes. Last week it was Bill Clinton's turn. At a church in Harlem across the street from an abandoned building and down the block from a crack house, the master of empathy was strangely subdued. Perhaps because so much of his agenda is perceived of as dead or dying, the staple of such appearances, a litany of Administration accomplishments, was largely truncated. There was a bit of boasting ("We've done more in 20 months than anybody has in a month...
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