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...first childhood memory is of my mother sitting me in front of the television telling me to "boo" General William Westmoreland whenever he came on the air. We're supposed to distrust military action, especially military action by a Republican administration...
...likelihood of combat has risen in the Persian Gulf, where battlefield conditions and terrain would make military assistance a necessity for reporters, distrust between the brass and the press has blazed anew. Despite repeated contacts with news executives who believe they made their concerns clear, the Pentagon has expanded its proposed ground rules for the behavior of journalists on any gulf battlefield from one page to six. Even after a promise of revision following a heated session with about 60 senior Washington journalists late last week, the Pentagon seems firm in its intention: to impose unprecedented restrictions on where reporters...
CERTAIN characteristics cut across all species of premeds: a bizarre fondness for standardized tests, a tendency to dream about medical school acceptance letters and a reflexive distrust of one another. And, of course, none would waste any time during reading period reading The Crimson...
...that "all politics is local." "It's the self-preservation instinct at work," says political scientist Greg Thielemann of the University of Texas at Dallas. "Pork-barreling in our direction is O.K." Ironically, a general anti-Washington feeling can work to an incumbent's advantage. The more people distrust the yahoos in Congress, the more inclined they are to cling to "their guy" as their one defender against congressional tomfoolery...
...Taxes. The ingrained distrust of government's ability to spend money wisely was even more pronounced at the state level. In contrast to previous elections, voters refused to impose new taxes even when they were earmarked for specific popular causes like fighting drugs and crime or protecting the environment. "Last time we were ready to pay, and we got taxed for it," says Sunny Merik, an editor in Santa Clara, Calif., who in the past supported measures that underwrote highway improvements and other public works. "But then the people in Washington put some ((fuel)) taxes on top of that...