Word: counterattacking
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...Washington side, Warner remains the choice of Republican barons. Bob Dole and his likely successor as majority leader, Trent Lott, have helped him raise an intimidating war chest. On the Virginia side the party is dominated by Buchanan-style conservatives who want the senior Senator's scalp. His counterattack is to twit Miller for accepting his help two years ago and to cast his own deviations from conservative orthodoxy as principled ones. "It is the way I have lived my life," Warner says. But his advertising betrays his nervousness. A sailor in World War II and a Marine officer...
...published this week by Times Books. As Birnbaum reports in this issue of TIME, Sperling and Bruce Reed (also profiled in his book), have been tying Bob Dole's campaign in knots by instantly counterpunching his every initiative. Birnbaum was one of the first to realize how high campaign counterattack was on the Clinton agenda. "The White House is always a madhouse," he says. "But when Sperling cleans up his act, that's a story...
INDEPENDENCE DAY (July 3). Illegal aliens invade Congress; President unites America by marshaling a counterattack. Satire or prophecy for campaign '96? Or just a safety valve--a chance to vent our paranoia in the 'plexes, where it belongs...
...counterattack, the G.O.P. is hauling out its biggest guns. The Chamber of Commerce will soon announce the formation of a sprawling new coalition called the Center on the 21st Century Workplace. The center will start by publishing economic studies in support of corporate and government downsizing but then will quickly throw money into a grass-roots effort to downsize the Democrats on Capitol Hill. "Unions have the money and the motivation," the Chamber's Bruce Josten says. "Now the business community is going to get more aggressive in return...
...rarefied academic atmospheres where they have incubated. These radical exegetes have now stirred spirited rebuttals from conservatives and traditionalists who want to make sure the faithful hear their side of the argument. For example, the Seminar's 1993 book The Five Gospels has already provoked a savage counterattack by Luke Timothy Johnson, a New Testament scholar at Emory University and the author of the recently published The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels. "Things of fundamental importance," Johnson thunders, "are being distorted...