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Look at it from a post-Gidget pop-cultural perspective, and the Bush era wasn't such a bad time to be a teenage girl. It was during the late 1980s and early '90s that knowing young women in hair dyed the darkest shade of no-one-understands-me seemed to claim their place in the Zeitgeist. Launched in 1988, the now defunct Sassy magazine racked up awards and hundreds of thousands of subscribers as the first teen magazine to pay homage to girls uninterested in bubble-gum pop and the notion that true love flows only to those...
When one of his fans complimented Ralph Reed by calling him the Christian Lee Atwater, she meant that he combined conservative morality with electoral smarts. But Atwater is gone, and other prominent Republican kingmakers of the Reagan-Bush era--James Baker, Ed Rollins, Charles Black--are out to pasture. To Reed, who last week announced his resignation as executive director of the Christian Coalition, this adds up to what he describes as a "strategic void." The 35-year-old Christian operator is not forsaking God for Mammon, but is seeking to fill that vacuum and lead the religious right...
...concern in the Federal Government...a discrimination against people who are poor and deprived that is quite traumatic in its impact." What is particularly interesting in Carter's words is that he spoke not only in his own name, but in the name of the former Republican President Bush, as well...
...CANDIDATE] GEORGE W. BUSH TEXAS GOVERNOR [SIGN OF RUNNING] Has been interviewing top G.O.P. operatives [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] He's the only Republican with any swagger [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Barbara Bush [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] George Bush...
...government may be over but the era of big challenges for our country is not," President Clinton said Monday in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. "So we need an era of big citizenship." At the Presidents' Summit for America's Future, big citizenship meant big names. Former Presidents Bush and Ford and former first lady Nancy Reagan, representing President Reagan, lined up on stage to sign a declaration of a "call to service" on the same site where delegates once signed the Declaration of Independence. Jimmy Carter spoke by cell phone. Yet on a day on which politicians gave...