Word: ideas
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...sense, brilliant because they restate 30 years of reactionary rhetoric against affirmative action with admirable brevity. What Cotton does not seem to understand, though, is that affirmative action is not about some amorphous thing called diversity. Instead, it is about social and political power. Simply put, the idea is that people who get more education have more say about the issues that matter to them...
Burton, Stanton's campaign director (the George Stephanopolous character), learns this lesson the hard way but does finally accept it in all of its cynicism; and the idea is that we should, too. In fact, the message at the end of "Primary Colors" seems to be intended as a universal principle: in order to do good, you also have to be a whore or a hypocrite...
...immediately. Carville does not have much contact with Clinton from week to week, much less day to day, but he is an almost mystical checkpoint for Clinton when it comes to counterattacking. Clinton wondered what Carville thought about releasing the letters. Carville said he thought it was a good idea, though he later noted that it didn't qualify as a nuclear counterstrike. "Releasing 15 letters is hardly an attack," he says...
...Airport for Ronald Reagan. Newt Gingrich has had to arbitrate between conservatives who can't wait to sink their teeth into Clinton's soft underbelly and the moderates who are awed by the President's popularity and fear a backlash at the polls. So last week Gingrich floated the idea of a special select committee to look into whether Starr's findings would warrant impeachment. That quickly gave way to the milder notion, favored by Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde, to have a less formal group look at whatever Starr eventually sends...
Zawinski and his co-workers had another idea: Don't give away just the Netscape browser, give away the source code too. This is like Coca-Cola's giving away free six-packs and the secret recipe as well, so you can make Coke at home. Here's the reasoning: Microsoft is so much bigger, and can throw so many programmers at any problem, that Netscape's only chance is to harness the talents of the thousands of hackers on the Net who might be willing to improve on the program if they had a stake in it. "I wouldn...