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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they can revive the language of morality without being judgmental. In his book The Spirit of Community, Etzioni promises as much. He says we can have a "moral revival" without "busybody meddling into our personal affairs," without "Puritanism or oppression," without "self-righteousness." We should "discourage" divorce yet not "condemn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: THE FALSE POLITICS OF VALUES | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...used his speech to reassert his role as Daddy-in-Chief, while making sure to abide by the Morris-inspired axiom of triangulation politics: Keep ideology out of it, and keep it modest. The President had declared the era of Big Government over, so it would be hard to condemn him for thinking small. But when it comes to families, Clinton said, you can think big about many small things. His laundry-list speech included tuition tax credits, adoption tax credits, money for child care, child-nutrition programs, literacy initiatives, family leave, even an environmental measure to help protect vegetables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: SKUNK AT THE FAMILY PICNIC | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...decade ago, it constituted a periodic embarrassment: an enraged judge would condemn a criminal to castration. The sentence would be disallowed. And a relieved public would laud itself for living in enlightened times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CHEAP SHOT AT PEDOPHILIA? | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...named Checkers. Now political operatives watch the declining ratings for the traditional convention format and conclude, rationally enough, that the public's taste has changed, that it wants to "feel" the data rather than think about them. And, in the spirit of those Hollywood bigwigs they so roundly condemn, they are more than willing to endure the raised eyebrows of the press if the polls and focus groups say such emotional manipulation is simply giving the public what it wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LOOKING GLASS: THREE TEARS FOR THE DEMOCRATS! | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...unfortunate that in its rush to condemn the school, the Civil Liberties Union and other organizations that oppose the school on the grounds that it is single-sex do not consider the history of public education in general and in New York City's District Four in particular...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: All-Girls' School: The Right Thing to Do | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

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