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...federal budget, health care and even environmental regulation, opinion polls should be left out of the whole policy-making process completely. Politicians should act on their strong convictions. Or, allow polls to completely determine policy. In that gray area between public determination and true statesmanship, politicians have their heyday. And the American people (people, not just "voters") have a bad day. In the current political process, "voters" are "third-railed...
...being carefully, expensively trained for leadership roles. Almost the opposite of what was planned for the Mandarins has happened: the consensus is that they shouldn't be in charge. The Episcopacy, a much more elitist and less fairly chosen group, had far broader public support during its mid-century heyday...
DIED. CHARLIE CONERLY, 74, star quarterback for the New York Giants during their '50s heyday; following heart attacks; in Memphis, Tennessee. His team touchdown-pass record (173) stood for 30 years...
...sequel to the Golden Age of movie music is upon us, and it can't be found on the Billboard charts. Not since the heyday of Steiner and Hermann have there been as many brilliant young composers working in movies. Consider these recent offerings: James Horner's glorious, Celtic-twilight-tinged music for Braveheart, along with his otherworldly harmonies for Apollo 13; Elliot Goldenthal's dashing romp through Batman Forever; Michael Kamen's lounge-lizard gloss on the great Latin lover Don Juan de Marco; and James Newton Howard's swashbuckling music for the otherwise waterlogged epic Waterworld. Together with...
...been five years since Margaret Thatcher resigned as Britain's Prime Minister. In her heyday she strode the international headlines with such bravura that she seemed inevitable, a natural force. The world stage seemed just the right size for her, as she chaffed her conservative soul mate Ronald Reagan or flattered the "new man," Mikhail Gorbachev...