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...contributors. According to the figures provided to TIME, the party and its various committees took in an astonishing $60 million in the first two quarters of 1995, compared with $36 million in 1993, the last nonelection year. That's an increase of 66%-well beyond even G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour's expectations...
...ambivalence Marten feels about the controversial treatment is echoed by the other illustrators -- Anita Kunz, Roz Chast, Karen Barbour, Polly Becker and Sandra Dionisi -- whom associate art directors Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...
...religious right feel the Republican Party isn't right enough for them, posing a danger for Reed if he continues to accommodate himself to the party's moderate elements. In March, James Dobson, head of the powerful Focus on Family organization, fired off open letters to party chairman Haley Barbour, complaining bitterly about the lack of immediate payoff from the November election. Fearful of compromising with "anti-family" elements, Dobson argued that it was time to fold the all-inviting "big tent" of the Republican Party. In contrast, Reed argues for a more inclusive Coalition and struggles to appear more...
Last week, as the House of Representatives voted for legal-reform measures as part of a Republican pledge to stanch the tide of frivolous lawsuits and to rein in society's litigious ways, the anecdotal evidence of the reformers' nightmares was nowhere stronger than in Barbour County. Last year juries in Alabama awarded $200 million in punitive damages, some of it in cases where actual loss was minuscule compared with the damages. "Alabama is off the charts," said George Priest, a Yale University professor of law and economics. "Lawsuits used to be about restitution. Now Jere Beasley goes into court...
...stay that kind of litigious stir, not just in Barbour County but also in the heart of the national citizenry, the House approved 1) a "losers pay" bill, which would require the party that had first rejected a settlement and then won a judgment for a lower amount to cover the opposing side's legal fees; 2) a bill tightening requirements for bringing securities-fraud lawsuits; and 3) a bill that would cap punitive damages in product-liability cases at $250,000 and allow judges to sanction parties that bring frivolous product-liability lawsuits. The bills were welcomed...