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California this fall is embroiled in the biggest, bitterest, most potentially significant ballot-initiative campaign since Proposition 13, the 1978 property-tax rollback that transformed American politics. The initiative is called Proposition 209, and it would abolish affirmative action in state contracting, education and employment. It has been running consistently ahead in the polls...
...confusion of a nighttime armored battle during the Gulf War, Lieut. Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) unleashes that bitterest irony (and reality) of modern warfare--friendly fire--and destroys one of his own tanks, killing his best friend...
...meantime ABC has been pursuing a highly regarded NBC program executive, Jamie McDermott, for a top post, and the tug-of-war over her services has prompted one of the bitterest network feuds of recent years. According to reports in the New York Post and New York magazine, McDermott--who had a role in developing such hit shows as Friends--sought to get out of her NBC contract by charging sexual harassment against the network's top West Coast executive, Don Ohlmeyer. McDermott's charges have been seen by some as a cynical ploy to free...
...style, the two heads of this campaign's bitterest rivalry are not so much fire and ice as ice and ice. Businesslike but affable, Reed, 35, is efficiency personified. His desk is so meticulously organized that he can pinpoint an individual document in the stacks of neatly piled papers. Pale and intense, Dal Col, 39, resembles a 15th century monk in a Renaissance painting. Yes, he too is efficient ("Both Scott and I make lists of lists," he says), but Dal Col is strung a little tighter. "He never loses his temper," Dal Col says of Reed. "I sometimes blow...
...Whitewater affair bubbling, by providing information only grudgingly. Never mind that they have, ultimately, turned over some 50,000 pages of evidence to congressional Whitewater investigators. The perception of stonewalling persists, and took on new life last week when the White House became embroiled with Congress in the bitterest showdown yet over Whitewater materials...