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Will the Republican Party ever be known as anything but the party of big-bucks Texans and Orange Country, California? Maybe. The recent moves to remove the anti-abortion plank from the Republican Party's platform takes them one step closer to--gasp--the party of consensus...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: The Center Will Hold the Parties | 7/26/1994 | See Source »

...similar problem came up with my nice,pipe-chewing tutor, scarcely older than I andalready married. As he lit and intricately curledaround his pipe, Mr. Weld would point out how thispoem (any poem) of John Donne's was about sex.SEX?! Oh dear! Holding the gasp, I assumed a blasetone: Oh. Yes. That. Of course...

Author: By Sylvia Maynard, | Title: Class of '44 Grads Reflect on Impact of War on College Life | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

Professors still will strive to press onemeaningful thought into many skulls. Here andthere will come that sudden gasp of revelation...

Author: By Sylvia Maynard, | Title: Class of '44 Grads Reflect on Impact of War on College Life | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...election-eve bombings are more likely to signal the last gasp of a weak, splintered racist Afrikaner minority than the start of the long-threatened great Boer revolt. Three of the 32 arrested are close to Terreblanche, including leaders of his personal bodyguard unit, the elite Iron Guard. The long, resolute march of democracy has caused deepening divisions within the white right. "The bombing campaign," says Wim Booyse, a political consultant in Pretoria, amounts to "a struggle for control of the heart of the right wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ugly Fight for White Rights | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

COVER: Smoking's Last Gasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Contents Page April 18, 1994 Vol. 143 No. 16 | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

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