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...taunt George Bush. When the "Chicken George" story broke last week, Republicans behaved as if this kind of cheap political theater were a crime against democracy. "I question the need for such a dirty-tricks operation," said Pennsylvania Republican William Clinger, the House committee chairman investigating the Livingstone flap. Call it Feathergate--and imagine what Clinger's hearings could do with this new scandalette: Mr. Livingstone, are you now or have you ever been an ersatz hen? Tell the committee: What did the President know about Chicken George, and when did he know...
...will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations of businessmen, congressmen and other organizations visited Cuba last year...
...will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations of businessmen, congressmen and other organizations visited Cuba last year...
...flap is especially painful for CBS because 60 Minutes has long managed to remain aloof from the network's ups and downs--a steady symbol (and often vocal defender) of the old standards and traditions. The controversy stems from a 60 Minutes story that was to include an interview with a former tobacco-industry executive seeking to blow the whistle on alleged misdeeds by his former employer. But the interview was killed after CBS lawyers raised concerns about possible lawsuits that the network could face from the tobacco industry if it were...
...flap over rap is not making life any easier for him. A cerebral, low-key chief executive, Levin has consistently defended the company's raunchy rap music on the grounds of freedom of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T's violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as a legitimate expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. "The test of any democratic society," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed column, "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought...