Word: democratizing
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Reading a list recently compiled by the Media Research Center of Alexandria, Va. was one of those liberal moments. the Media Research Center, despite its objective-sounding name, is a conservative watchdog group. Earlier this month, they put out a Top 10 list of, to quote a Arkansas Democrat-Gazette media columnist, "the most egregiously offensive liberal series and [television] movies of the 1994-95 season...
...Some others around Washington suggest she was never committed to sweeping reform, but kept Dole identified with the idea to prevent Republicans from looking like diehard supporters of the existing system in the fall elections. "Sheila Burke was the Republican executioner of Hillary Clinton's health-care bill," insists Democrat Lawrence O'Donnell, who was then the Finance Committee's top staff member. "I saw the health-care saga last year as Hillary versus Sheila, and anyone who put their money on Hillary was crazy...
...problem of asserting parental control. "I think that with a hundred channels coming in the future, parents should be able to push one button and knock gratuitous violence out of their homes," said cable mogul Ted Turner at a recent press conference. Representative James Moran, a Virginia Democrat, says, "We're not suggesting this is a perfect solution. All we're doing is offering something to parents who have to be in the work force. They have no way to effectively control what their children are watching when they're not home...
...suicide. It is unclear how the move -- a potential political powder keg -- would immediately be carried out. So far, TIME's James Carney notes, all committee requests for testimony and evidence have come jointly from the Republican chairman, Sen. Al D'Amato of New York, and the ranking Democrat, Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland. (Only D'Amato has sole authority to issue a subpoena.) "The White House posture is that it's insignificant unless and until D'Amato and Sarbanes request that she testify," Carney says. "There's no unanimity among the Senate Republicans, because they know that...
Republicans continued a partisan assault, saying the Clinton Administration has stonewalled requests for information about Waco, engaging in "a mass public relations and damage control campaign." A committee Democrat insisted that the Administration has been "completely forthcoming...