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These questions were at the heart of the debate last week surrounding the release of the final report of Attorney General Edwin Meese's Commission on Pornography and a series of restrictive Supreme Court decisions that, among other things, allowed states to outlaw homosexual sodomy. Though significant, neither the report's findings nor the court's rulings were, on their own, momentous. Taken together, however, they seemed emblematic of a new moral militancy evident in communities around the country and of a willingness of government officials, from federal to local levels, to help enforce traditional values. In addition...
...this year, incidentally -- Lewis reasoned, "They'll try to help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak to 111 races; Cheryl Miller led the U.S. women's basketball team to an 83-60 victory over the Soviets; Dasher Evelyn Ashford, 29, held off East Germany's Heike Drechsler, 21, for another day; Jackie Joyner became the first U.S. woman since...
...establish the Commission on Pornography, he did not sit in on its hearings, and even late last week he maintained that he had not read the report. Yet Attorney General Edwin Meese is widely regarded as the driving force behind the commission that he inherited from his predecessor, William French Smith. Indeed, in his 16 months in office, the former Presidential Counsellor has emerged as the Administration's chief crusader for Ronald Reagan's social agenda. It is Ed Meese who speaks out against judicial activism, openly challenges Supreme Court decisions through Justice Department briefs, and selects conservative ideologues...
...relief not to large groups of people but only to specific individuals who can prove that they were victims of racial bias. Hiring goals and timetables -- or, as the Reaganauts prefer to call them, quotas -- are a form of "reverse discrimination" against whites that is "immoral," contends Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...celebrating a statistical victory. If yours is one of a hundred weddings in a thousand, might as well send up a big salute. There are weddings of fantasy (from The Godfather to Dynasty) and of privilege: Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger on April 26, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg on July 19, and Fergie and Prince Andrew on July 23. They are all fair game for emulation in a democracy where a plastic card can grab you a piece of anyone else's dream and an extra slice of wedding cake. Linda Blackburn, a former catering consultant, and onetime wedding...