Word: appealing
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...victory reflects more than just Bill Clinton's return to his centrist, New Democratic roots, and more than his opponents' failure to stake out alternative positions. Instead the Clinton victory represents a fresh and indeed a novel approach to politics that could well change the way both major parties appeal to the electorate in the future. Congressional Democrats, who failed to retake Congress after losing control in 1994, would do well to study the differences between their approach and the President's if they are to regain majority-party status...
...series on eight nights over the next two weeks, smack in the middle of the networks' well-hyped fall premieres. (Little, Brown has also published a handsome companion book.) It's a mission that might seem as foolhardy as Custer's, but The West has much of the same appeal that drew record audiences (for PBS) to The Civil...
Adam Sandler is of the new S.N.L. breed. His Cajun Man, Opera Man and the rest were not varied characters; they were expressions of one capacious ego. The issue for him was not selling out but finding a buyer. And Hollywood, ever desperate for performers with male-teen appeal, bought. Sandler's first two films, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, were crude and slouchy, but they returned enough money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof...
Late last month a Finnish court ruled that Helsingius must divulge the true E-mail address of a penet.fi user who posted to a newsgroup what the Church of Scientology claims are copyrighted secrets. He has 30 days in which to comply or appeal, and his lawyers are optimistic. But for now, and perhaps forever, anon.penet.fi is unplugged because, as Helsingius puts it, "there's no real protection for free speech on the Internet in Finland...
Rucker A. Alex '99, who has been in charge of coordinating the student group involvement for the event, said these groups will help illustrate the universal appeal of politics...