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Even as De Klerk impressed the world with his reforms, some in South Africa feared that the process of change might one day run up against the unwillingness of whites to cede power to blacks. Reform, says Cape Town novelist Andre Brink, went against De Klerk's grain but was forced upon him by circumstances -- black uprisings, international isolation, economic rot. "Now, at the first sign of things not going his way," says Brink, "his real colors are beginning to show -- his conservatism and belief in force as the only way of getting out of a dilemma...
...portray the Clinton-Gore team as liberals in moderate clothing were constantly deflected by questions about their own prospects and record in office. In a week when Bush faced hecklers at a gathering of POW and MIA families, quayle gritted his teeth and denied that he was on the brink of being dropped from the team. When he turned up on CNN'S Larry King Live to repeat that line, however, he seemed to provide his own escape clause. "Believe me, if I thought that I was hurting the ticket, I'd be gone," he said -- even as new polls...
Even before it meets, the convention is stirring nostalgic memories of 1976, when the Democrats met in New York to nominate another Southern Governor, Jimmy Carter, who went on to win, while the city, still on the brink of bankruptcy, got a huge lift in morale out of its successful performance as host. As some New Yorkers might phrase it in the native tongue, they should both be so lucky twice. (See related stories beginning on page...
...third, less Machiavellian theory might hold the key. Kennedy may indeed have disparaged Roe three years ago, before Clarence Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall. But faced with the possibility that Roe might really be overturned -- and the social tumult that would ensue -- he instinctively pulled back from the brink...
...Yanks are, in their way, a family. They have a deserted chateau for a home. They have a designated Father (Frank Whaley), a sometime seminarian whose priestly aspirations have gone awry; a designated Mother (Gary Sinise), a fussbudget teetering on the brink of mental breakdown; and a favored son, Will Knott (Ethan Hawke), sergeant in command as well as the film's narrator and controlling sensibility...