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The National Endowment for the Arts commands such a small share of total ) government spending that it does not even appear as a separate item on the short form of the federal budget. But relative to its size, the agency has over the past few years probably consumed more debate...
"I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries." -- JESSE HELMS, WHO HAD BEEN SINGING DIXIE, TO ORRIN HATCH AS THEY RODE IN AN ELEVATOR WITH CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN, THE SENATE'S ONLY BLACK MEMBER. MOSELEY- BRAUN'S RETORT: "SENATOR HELMS, YOUR SINGING...
The United Daughters of the Confederacy had had their way with the Senate in the past. Four times this century the Senate had renewed the patent on their insignia, which includes the seven-starred Confederate flag -- an emotional symbol that continues to divide blacks and whites in the South. But...
Sheldon Hackney's credentials are impeccably liberal. He is the husband of a Friend of Hillary, departing president of an Ivy League university, a white Southerner accredited in the civil rights movement, a defender of Robert Mapplethorpe against Jesse Helms. In April, Hackney seemed the natural choice to be President...
But, as Brown showed at her recent reading at the Brattle Theatre, she is far more consistently appealing as a speaker. She convulsed her audience with swift one-liners: "You can't be saved if you don't sin," she explained persuasively. "Jesus died for our sins, I wouldn't...