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In the first few years after he was elected in 1992, North Carolina's Lauch Faircloth tried to be every bit as conservative and unbridled as that other, better-known Republican Senator from the Tar Heel State, Jesse Helms. During the Whitewater hearings, Faircloth used his seat on the Senate...
The influx of better-educated, more suburban voters to the new North Carolina has created a political paradox. The state's electorate is becoming more Republican yet less conservative. New voters in Charlotte and Research Triangle Park tend to register Republican but still prefer fiscally responsible pragmatists--even if they...
For years Democrats have believed, or at least hoped, that the emergence of new-style moderate voters would be enough to cost Jesse Helms his seat. Not yet. Now they are hoping that Edwards will be a crossover success, uniting those more moderate suburbanites with a good chunk of the...
Americans like their courts independent, but they're not as sure about international tribunals. As a month of negotiations gets under way in Rome today to create an International Court of Criminal Justice to prosecute human rights violations, the U.S. is pressing for U.N. Security Council veto power over the...
Now, is it Ted Kennedy or Jesse Helms? Or are students generally too preoccupied with the practicalities of forging careers and collecting salaries to worry about the ideologies of either?