Word: bans
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...July 29 and I'm going to see Sarah Ban Breathnach, whose name is pronounced Bon Brannock. She is the author of Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, a 500-page meditation to help women find fulfillment by appreciating what they already have. It has been on the best-seller list for 70 weeks, with 2.2 million copies in print. (A companion journal zoomed onto best-seller lists last month--an astonishing feat for a virtually blank book.) Simple Abundance's entry for this day is "The Home as a Hobby," in which she suggests that cleaning...
Just after President Clinton renewed his call for a ban on unrestricted donations to political parties, the nonprofit group Common Cause released a study showing that a record $34.3 million in "soft money" direct donations had been received by the Republican and Democratic parties so far this year, while phone records have revealed that Vice President Gore in 1996 made 44 fund-raising calls from the White House, using a Clinton-Gore re-election campaign credit card...
Still, many Marines say boot camp is easier than they expected. And even if it was too tough for boxer Riddick Bowe--he dropped out after 11 days last February--recruits are not immune to society's trends. Krulak, for example, has had to ban the practice, popular among some male Marines, of wearing fingernail polish...
This would all be a postfeminist embarrassment if Albright's wiles hadn't been so successful. Bitterly opposed to the worldwide chemical-weapons ban, Helms relented during Albright's pilgrimage to Wingate and let the treaty proceed to a Senate vote, where it was ratified. Although Helms feels toward the United Nations about as warmly as he does toward gays and lesbians, at Albright's behest he is working on a bill to pay $819 million in back dues that the U.S. owes...
...plan to fix the problems of campaign financing [NATION, July 14], top G.O.P. fund raiser Wayne Berman omitted the most urgently needed reform: a ban on all paid political advertising, which would remove the burden on both political parties of coping with skyrocketing advertising costs. Let the networks, at their own discretion, provide free time for the important debates. An end to advertising would halt the need for soft and hard money and the obscene kind of influence peddling it engenders. And it would be a blessing to America's TV audience, sickened by nauseating political ads. GENE GRAMM...