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...relishing every minute of it. "That's a special place of honor," he says. "It's the highest compliment you can be paid in politics." Actually, it's not the soft-spoken Tennessee Democrat himself who has rankled the Administration. It's Cooper's health-care plan, a centrist proposal that has become the clear favorite of the Democratic Leadership Council, the very forum that served as the launching pad for Clinton's assault on the Oval Office. "Who am I? I'm a nobody," Cooper demurs. "But all of a sudden, they're afraid our bill is too popular...
Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton have never much liked each other, and the divide is widening. Indeed, at the exact moment last Friday when Clinton was cementing the support of centrist Democrats in Washington, Jackson was in a New York City synagogue eulogizing a labor leader whose life's work represented the best of the disappearing black-Jewish civil rights coalition. Neither Jackson nor Clinton swiped at the other directly during those appearances -- Jackson's slurs came before and after his public comments -- but the thrust of their presentations could hardly have been more different. The President talked about mutual...
...even a boom, which might fall flat by 1996). So, why doesn't the Administration do more bragging? One reason is that Clinton does not want to sound insensitive to the troubles of those still suffering from the hangover of hard times. Thus, in a speech to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council Friday, the President proudly listed almost every upbeat statistic, but also took care to remark, "We have a long way to go. We are still dealing with stagnant incomes, we are still dealing with the fact that more and more people who lose their jobs lose them permanently...
...rumors of Federico Fellini's death must have been exaggerated. Surely the wildly contradictory results of last week's municipal elections were the surreal creation of Italy's most imaginative film director. Disgusted with 40 years of corrupt governments dominated by centrist parties, voters opted for the extremes -- recycled communists, neofascists, northern separatists -- signaling the end of one era while giving no clue to the direction of the new one. The defeat of the mainstream parties seems likely to be repeated when Italians elect a new national Parliament next year. Wrote Eugenio Scalfari, editor of the Rome daily La Repubblica...
...marginalized. It's more than validation for certain groups. It's validation for the whole of society rather than just some part of it." Many distinguished scholars, however, see firsthand evidence that the p.c. and multicultural movements are leading to a more general separatism, a fragmentation of the centrist consensus that built America. To study anyone's culture but one's own -- unless one is white, in which case it is necessary to learn about the oppressed others -- is to commit an act of identity suicide. Beyond this loss of interest in universal ideas, often expressed as disbelief that anything...