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There is, after slogging through Rothenberg's exhaustive survey of the neoliberal agenda, almost nothing that emerges as characteristic, except perhaps a cautious pragmatism. Anyone who professes the slightest skepticism for traditional' Democratic interest group politics can join the club. Content to spout generalities about, basically, the current generation of new Democratic leaders, Rothenberg fails to articulate a set of first principles for this newism. And so he fails to support one of the principal tenets of his book--that we are dealing with a new American political ideology...
...seemed routine, except for one elderly worshiper who whispered to her pew partner: "It should never have happened." She meant that soft-spoken James Nelson, 39, is one of the most prodigal of sons ever to be approved for the Christian ministry. On Oct. 30,1969, near Glasgow, Nelson got into a row with his mother over a girlfriend and, in a fit of rage, began bludgeoning her with a truncheon. When it broke, he went after her with a brick. Nelson dragged her body out to the garage, changed his bloody clothing, washed up and drove into the city...
SULLIVAN STADIUM is best known as the home of the New England Patriots. The scoreboard at the north end of the stadium still reads Patriots/Saints from the last game of the 1983 season in December. During off season the field is usually quiet, except for the occasional concert or ethnic festival but about two weeks ago something changed. Workers covered the field with plastic and plywood and then dumped 600 truckloads of dirt on the field for tractors and bulldozers to sculpt into a motocross track...
What they do is not well understood. "Oh, did you paddle today?" asks a passerby. Every day (except Thursday afternoon and Sunday) is the same when they train together, as they did for five weeks this spring at Lake Placid: up at 6:45 for a two-mile run, breakfast, an hour and a half on the water, lunch, rest, a speed hike or a weight-lifting session, an additional hour of paddling, and dinner. "We've all grown really close," says Conover of the team, and that should help with the four-person competition, new to the Olympics...
Reporters for wire services and major newspapers, by contrast, were tucked away on platforms placed diagonally behind the podium: even when standing, many of them could not see the speakers, the delegates or much of anything else except the glowing network insignia and the distant figures of CBS's Dan Rather, NBC's Tom Brokaw and ABC's Peter Jennings and David Brinkley. Said Editor Robert Maynard of the Oakland Tribune: "This is just another dramatic example that TV has completely taken over center stage in American politics...