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...strikes-you're-out movement. On immigration, he earned more points with conservatives by spearheading Proposition 187, which, if upheld by the courts, will deny schooling and other state services to illegals. But Wilson's biggest achievement as Governor has been the fiscal stabilization of California with a budget ax that year after year has held spending to 1991 levels. It has pulled the state back from near financial ruin in spite of recession-reduced revenues and successive natural disasters. But stabilization came at painfully high cost. Successive cuts in California's higher-education system have been so onerous that...
...when he will decide. Many politicos view a Powell run for the White House as a mirage because it rests on a popularity that is broad but untested. Right now he is still the Desert Storm demigod, but once he has to answer attack ads and identify programs to ax, his stature will surely deflate. Even assuming he could survive this inevitable erosion of esteem to retain the margin of victory in November 1996, it's not easy to chart any route that would get him to the top of a national ticket-especially since he has declared, "There...
...Brady Bunch Movie was in some ways his most trying project. In one version of the script, the naive-to-their-knee-socks Bradys were turned into foulmouthed hellions. "It was vulgar," says Schwartz. "Instead of making it a gentle satire, it was written with an ax." Schwartz, who has four children and has been married to his wife Mildred for 54 years, fired off memos to Paramount chief Sherry Lansing, threatening to campaign against the film should it contain racy scenes or base language. He won. The film, which transports the Formica-loving clan to a '90s world...
...without reference to methodical thinking or subtle argumentation. There is nothing probing about these photographs, nothing instructive. They will not convince anyone, and by now, they will probably not shock too many either. They sure do come in handy, though, when you desperately want to grind an ideological ax without getting caught up in the messiness of serious contemplation...
...Republican Congress, if it is to avoid claims of hypocrisy, needs to address this situation. When the budget ax falls, it should fall fairly. Social Security should not be spared just because its beneficiaries have a few more gray hairs on their heads...