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...issued, to figure out a host of revised rules that take effect Jan. 1. In many cases, the goal will be to look poorer on paper than they really are. Just how unethical is it, they wonder, to outsmart a system they feel is itself unfair? Parents contend that they are penalized if they save for college or their children take part-time jobs, since such savings reduce the amount of aid they can qualify for. Families who rent their homes may now appear just as rich on paper as mansion dwellers. Whites grumble about affirmative action; top students complain...
ATTORNEYS WHO CONTEND THAT DEMOCRATIC PATRIARCH CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, is too ill to stand trial for his alleged role in the B.C.C.I. scandal could well be right. When Clifford sought heart surgery at the Washington Hospital Center in July, doctors quietly determined that his heart was too weak to withstand an operation. "He has practically no heart muscle left," says a medical source. Clifford was later hospitalized briefly for internal bleeding. His lawyers now plan to ask a New York judge to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that the rigors of a trial could cause a fatal...
...pivotal question is whether reporters' personal values actually color their stories. Although it seems self-evident that they do, some scholars, such as political scientist Michael Genovese of Loyola Marymount University, contend that there is no clear proof of it. ABC's Brit Hume says his avowed conservatism never intrudes on his work: "It's not hard to keep bias out; you just have to be conscious of it. Most reporters are in denial." Some journalists go to great lengths to appear neutral. Executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. of the Washington Post abstains from voting and urges his staff, especially...
...periodically -- and from Clinton with some regularity -- there is enough of a debate about future directions to perceive two very different governing philosophies. It simply is not true, as even many academics contend, that the candidates differ only at the margins. From Bush it is more of the same, a laissez-faire embrace of free markets, a scarcely subtle survival-of-the- fittest signal. The Republicans, it is clear, see nothing wrong with extending the Me decade indefinitely; no matter that Reagan's trickle-down nostrums, which were supposed to lift all boats, have so far lifted only yachts...
...election, Bush's assaults will continue and escalate. It is possible he can still destroy Clinton. If that is the result, he can be assured of a terminally hostile Democratic Congress through his second term. Moreover, he will have no positive mandate from the voters and will have to contend with a bitter battle within his own party over his successor in 1996. As he wandered over the line of decency last week in his red-baiting attacks, a troubling question arose: If Bush wins a second term by these destructive tactics, will he have destroyed his presidency in order...