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...cautious, righteous, minister's son, whose mother considers it something of a moral lapse that he now drinks coffee, he spent most of his life as a judge and a corporate lawyer, and still represents clients like Big Tobacco and General Motors. He was once considered the kind of centrist Republican that Democrats love, until he took over the Whitewater investigation and proceeded to squeeze witnesses and pursue leads with a zeal that troubled even people who lost no love for Bill Clinton...
More than a decade later, The Crimson againfound itself embroiled in a controversy centeringon race. Crimson reporter J. Elliot Morgan's lifewas allegedly threatened during an interview withLeonard Jeffries, an Afro-centrist professor atthe City University of New York...
...asked, "What are your politics?" has been a rite of passage for prospective editors of The Crimson since 1973. Over the last twenty-five years, however, the range of acceptable, and therefore most common, responses has changed--from "radical" in the '70s to "left" in the '80s to "Democrat," "centrist," and even the occasional "Republican...
...paper "began to shift somewhat away from the existing liberal slant toward a more centrist viewpoint," says Ira E. Stoll '94, a Crimson president...
...kill a bill that would have given the President "fast track" authority to negotiate trade agreements without congressional approval, Gore tried to talk Clinton into making his case before a joint session of Congress and spoke out in favor of the bill when preaching to the converted, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. But he had nothing to say on the subject when addressing the national convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O, which opposed the bill. "Clinton went in there and gave it to the union right between the eyes," says D.L.C. president Al From, "but Gore didn't bring...