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...recently as three weeks ago, many G.O.P. lawmakers were less focused on the hope of winning the White House than on the fear of losing the Congress. And so last week was something of a spectacle of genuflection. House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich, as ruthlessly honest a budget cutter as they come, was calling himself a "supply-side deficit hawk" and gushing, "I love this program! I think it's a terrific program...
Above all, Kemp is a man with vision and optimism to spare, the perfect antidote to Dole's asperity and narrow focus. But the potential for conflict that he brings to the campaign is also inescapable. Kemp the supply-side tax cutter and Dole the dogged budget balancer have been ideological enemies for almost two decades. At some point the political antagonism tilted into the personal. Kemp was partly responsible for the single most painful political betrayal in Dole's life. In 1985, after the supply-side tax cuts championed by Kemp were followed by an exploding federal deficit, Dole...
...House and then in the Senate. His victory last week marked the triumph in the usually sober Senate of the breed of young, brash and very conservative Republican that took over the House when Newt Gingrich swept the G.O.P. to power in 1994. Lott is a supply-side tax cutter and a fervent deregulator, though his enthusiasm for deficit reduction withers when it comes to Pentagon pork, which he adroitly delivers to his home state...
...Donner to make low-budget action films in the $10 million range. Setting the abstemious tone at the opening Cannes press conference, Jury President Frances Ford Coppolla, who knows a thing or two about over-extended budgets, blamed Wall Street investors for the "corporate studio mentality" that brought cookie-cutter creativity to the industry following a string of Hollywood financial disasters. He traced the trend back to the megabomb "Heaven's Gate." Said Coppolla: "They used that film as an excuse to take over. These are the people who brought you the Big Mac, and in the last twelve years...
...them at the academy, the Coast Guard brass launched a criminal probe into the jokes, according to a recently concluded review of the case obtained by TIME. This was not Blanchard's first such cultural clash. In 1990, as skipper of the Legare, a sleek, new 270-ft. cutter, a female petty officer charged him with sexual harassment, saying he and another commander had treated her unfairly and called her a "Jewish-American princess." (For good measure, she wasn't Jewish.) While Blanchard was never punished, the Coast Guard concluded he had harassed the woman. After his speech...