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Single-issue politics were needed when they came, because they forced Washington to deal with, or at least look at, great matters of civic concern that it had scanted: first the civil rights movement, and then the environment, women's reproductive rights, health legislation, the educational crisis. But now they too face dilution by a trivialized sense of civic responsibility. What are your politics? Oh, I'm antismoking. And yours? Why, I'm starting an action committee to have the suffix -man removed from every word in every book in the Library of Congress. And yours, sir? Well, God told...
...some time for America to mature on the subject of sex. Assume, however, that public interest in a candidate's + sex life is not prurience, not a sort of freebasing of sleaze, but an honest curiosity about a politician's character. What does an extramarital affair reveal? On purely civic grounds, the public would be better off investigating the politician's other habits. Healthy diet? Does he drink too much? Does he drive a car recklessly? Does he read books...
Kerrigan has also been asked to speak before various civic groups in the South...
...aquarium and an office tower to contain the world headquarters of Campbell's Soup. The hope, says Thomas Corcoran, president of the Coopers Ferry Development Association, is that the complex will strengthen the tax base, bring in new jobs and restore to the residents a much needed sense of civic pride...
What profit political correctness if you've got a nut case for a nanny? That, in essence, is the issue confronting Claire and Michael Bartel (Annabella Sciorra and Matt McCoy), exemplary citizens of that citadel of the new civic punctiliousness, Seattle...