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Samper's problems got no sympathy in Washington, where he has long been considered too soft on drug traders. The State Department dismissed the storm in Bogota as an "internal" issue, but Republican Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, demanded that Colombia be "decertified," or given a...
On the off chance that he does decide to make a go of it this year, Time Present, Time Past seems unlikely to jump-start a Bradley steamroller. Ever the gentleman, he writes about his Senate colleagues so blandly that even North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a bitter ideological foe...
Bill Bradley's new memoir (Knopf; 442 pages; $26), could be a prologue to a presidential run. The book has an impressive first printing (100,000 copies), and the author is committed to a 20-city publicity tour. Nonetheless, says Bradley, "what I'm doing is not about candidacy. The...
Ironically, as Hughes himself pointed out, Mapplethorpe never got a cent from the NEA; the museum putting on his "The Perfect Moment" exhibit did. But the symbolism was enough to suffice. The artist, who died before the controversy reached its real boiling point, turned Jesse Helms and other politicians into...
While Forbes generally shuns the politics of exclusion, he has nonetheless attracted to his organization two veterans of Jesse Helms' race-baiting campaigns. When asked whether he was disturbed by the resumes of these two men, Forbes replied that one must hope for redemption, citing the aphorism "Every saint has...