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...conference call, on Oct. 22, lasted nearly two hours and ended with an agreement that members of the group would write papers and circulate the documents among themselves. In their second two-hour conversation last week, members of the group debated their papers and agreed there is a "huge" hunger for a party that is fiscally conservative, socially liberal, pro-environment and in favor of campaign-finance reform...
TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum and Michael Duffy report that seven centrist politicians have been quietly plotting a run for the White House. In two late October conference calls, the schemers concluded that there is a hunger for a party that is fiscally conservative, socially liberal, pro-environment and in favor of campaign-finance reform. Next Sunday, the group members, which include Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, former Republican Senator and Independent Governor of Connecticut Lowell Weicker and former Democratic Senators Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Gary Hart of Colorado, will hold their most important call yet. They will...
...Cajun. They do not want to end up as some colorful ethnic subculture known for its music or cooking or the odd linguistic twist. Quebeckers are driven by a terror of being crushed by an English-speaking continent of 300 million into a mere cultural curiosity. Hence their hunger for political independence...
...first, the desert island scenario is played for laughs; as Bishop complains of hunger, Phyllis pulls a huge butcher-knife from her handbag, with the instruction: "Go cut the arm off that nun." But as mother and son gradually realize that they are not going to be rescued, they begin to drift towards insanity--Bishop, neurotic and stuttering from the start, talks obsessively about Katherine Hepburn, while Phyllis clings to her vanity about clothes and make-up in order to fend off the horrible truth...
After Emory, Marshall wants to go home to the coastal slums of Savannah to try to improve the lives of the city's foundering African Americans. He has no delusions that he can wipe out the hunger and poverty that haunted his own youth; his attempt last summer to initiate a modest on-the-job-training program for inner-city youths died in the local Chamber of Commerce. He feels scorn for blacks who flee poverty only to forget those they left behind. "[Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas talks about being from Pinpoint, a really rundown area of Savannah...