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...association with Jackson. At the D.N.C., he kept the factions together, at least partly, by being evenhanded. In 1989 he supported Richard Daley Jr. in the Chicago mayoral race, standing against his former patron, Jackson, who was backing another candidate. But several years later, when two officials of the centrist Democratic Leadership Conference tried to prevent Jackson from speaking at a meeting, Brown delivered a searing rebuke. The groundwork of unity that he laid eventually enabled the party to rally behind Clinton...
With passage of a new federal telecommunications law effectively banning "indecent" communications on the Internet, the cost of illiberal, left-wing campaigns against pornography and other speech deemed hateful should be clear. Censorship is now regarded as an appropriate response to social problems by centrist and left-of-center politicians, as well as upholders of "family values" on the right. Overwhelming bipartisan support for the indecency ban demonstrates how leftist proposals to regulate speech further a right-wing social agenda...
Shelemay says she sees the Music Department at Harvard as having a much more centrist approach than Yale in seeking to bring some performance and musical study together for undergraduates...
Many Forbes backers have centrist views that might otherwise have led them to drift toward Dole as the most moderate of the Republican field. Among the supporters of both candidates, about the same percentage describe themselves as regular churchgoers (Dole 45%, Forbes 43%). But when it comes to social attitudes, Forbes voters are less likely to side with the Christian Right. On abortion, 57% are pro-choice, in contrast to 48% of those for Dole. Asked whether the government should promote one set of moral values over another, 54% of Forbes voters say no. Among Dole voters, a 51% majority...
Facing one of the most partisan Congresses in years, President Clinton delivered his third State of the Union message--a smooth, politically centrist proclamation designed to appeal directly to voters. Republicans accused the President of failing to match his balanced-budget rhetoric with deeds, but they saved some of their toughest adjectives--uninspiring, harsh and stumbling--for one of their own: majority leader Bob Dole and his TV response to the President...