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Harvard's Department of Government of Government has decided, with some noteworthy opposition among its faculty, to give columnist George Will an appointment to teach at the school. As a firm believer in the first Amendment and a strong advocate of giving students the opportunity to hear divergent voices on...

Author: By John W. Mashek, | Title: The Ethics of George Will | 4/19/1995 | See Source »

Gramm is neither Speaker of the House nor majority leader of the Senate. His place in the revolution's vanguard was secured by virtue of his role as the True Believer, a title he alone can claim among his presidential rivals. He would have voters see him as the staunch...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Welfare Reform for the Rich | 3/4/1995 | See Source »

Then again, Kasich needs all the friends he can get these days. As Budget Committee chairman, he is charged with pulling off a trillion-dollar feat: wiping out the deficit by 2002, while lowering middle-class taxes by better than $100 billion. Moreover, it all has to be done without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDGET, MEET THY MAKER | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

Just Cause," directed by Arne Glimcher ("The Mambo Kings"), starts out looking like a nearly step-by-step rip-off of "True Believer," where James Woods plays a lawyer trying to free a man who has spent eight years in Ossining ('Sing Sing') for a murder he didn't commit...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: 'Just Cause' Just Short of Thrilling | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

Armstrong is approached by the imprisoned man's grandmother (in "True Believer," it was the mother), played by the great Ruby Dee. She begs him to come to South Florida to look into the case of her son, Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood), convicted in 1986 of the rape and murder...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: 'Just Cause' Just Short of Thrilling | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

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