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...Conventions, of course, are little more than scripted beauty pageants these days, but they still attract the pundits like flies. And just re-elected Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge is one of the GOP's new breed of pragmatic managerial governors who draw the broad local support the national party lacks. But why not runner-up New York, where mayor Rudy Giuliani and Governor George Pataki have Manhattan's crime rate way down and the city's popularity way up? "New York is still hostile territory for most Republicans," says veteran TIME political reporter Richard Duncan. "It's closer now than...
Looper was a perennial also-ran in local politics. A candidate in five recent elections, he has switched parties twice; in 1988 he volunteered to work for Al Gore's presidential campaign. This time Looper was running as a Republican, trying to attract attention by legally changing his middle name from Anthony to (Low Tax). The stunt--parentheses and all--did little to disguise his idiosyncrasies. Looper is already under indictment on charges of misuse of office and, in June, had been slapped with a $1.2 million paternity suit by his live-in girlfriend. (He reacted to her charges with...
...businesses are adopting policies considered wildly liberal in the political arena. Example: only 62 state and local governments have extended benefits to the unwed partners of employees. But more than 430 U.S. firms have done so. Three out of four FORTUNE 500 firms have diversity programs to help them attract minorities and keep them happy...
...artists' clients wanted was the imagery of success and progress in claiming and settling the land. Early 19th century Australian painters, like their counterparts in America, thus showed little interest in painting the wild--until it became a tourist sight. They did farms, villages, settled acres--images that would attract new settlement...
...Harvard is one of a small number of universities that are able to attract leaders in scientific research and provide resources that will enable them to sustain that leadership," he said...