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...Arkansas Governor is cultivating a mainstream image as head of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council...
Despite this nationwide trend towards restricting offensive and insensitive speech, Harvard has maintained a "centrist" position. Last year, after much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) approved free speech guidelines that would censure, not censor, "hate speech." Protection of the First Amendment remains the primary goal of the University, Harvard adminstrators said...
...didactic letters, sounding like a fuzzy echo from a long-ago college lecture. Communitarianism. Was it a late-medieval religious heresy, a 19th century utopian philosophy or an aesthetic theory that predated socialist realism? The correct answer is none of the above. But if a new group of centrist academics -- sociologists, political scientists and law professors -- has its way, the term will soon take a place among the important isms that shape the U.S. political dialogue...
...reappeared on the streets of Moscow, Leningrad and other cities to protest military intervention in the Baltics. No event since the advent of perestroika has so polarized Soviet society as the bloodshed in Vilnius. It has widened the chasm between reformers and reactionaries, leaving almost no support for the centrist positions that Gorbachev claims to represent...
...similar proposal came last month from a group styling itself the Centrist bloc and claiming support from 20 political parties and associations. And only two weeks ago, Ivan Polozkov, unreconstructed head of the Communist Party of the Russian republic, wrote in Pravda that a "Union for the Salvation of the Fatherland" should be formed to unite all "patriotic forces" and "prevent a transition to a market system...