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...unhappy with the way the state took over the school board and eliminated a residency requirement for city employees. Some public school teachers don't like the way Engler pushed through 173 charter schools. And Democratic-leaning union officials just want to make a little trouble. Though the officials insist they aren't organizing turn-out-the-vote crusades, a top Lansing labor figure told TIME last week, "To the degree we can bloody Bush up and make Engler look bad, heck, that's good for us and the nation...
...performance in Man on the Moon in favor of Sean Penn in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, an omission that stings slightly less than if they had nominated Tom Hanks for The Green Mile. (Totally random diversion, here. Tom Hanks is a poor actor. Why does everyone insist he's God? Did anyone see The Burbs? How about Joe vs. the Volcano? Just because he cried in Philadelphia, slurred his speech in Forrest Gump and lowered his volume in Saving Private Ryan doesn't mean he's Brando. Come...
More recently, Gore's fudging is notable for being reflexive, subject to immediate refutation by checking his record, and gratuitous, since the truth would work as well. We all know he's pro-choice, but why did he insist he had always been so, rather than explain his moral struggle to get there? He conceded that he had voted to deny federal funds for abortions, but omitted that as a House member he was generally antiabortion, voting for a proposal that would have defined a fetus as a human life, which would have negated Roe v. Wade. As Vice President...
...stock price plunged from $40 to $11 a share. In meetings with government officials, Chiquita laid the blame squarely on the E.U.'s trade restrictions. The U.S. Trade Representative and the rest of the Clinton Administration bought the line, at least officially. And to this day, Chiquita officials insist that's the case. Steven Warshaw, Chiquita's president, told TIME, "The E.U.'s illegal banana regime is the cause of the company's poor financial results since 1992. It would be absurd to conclude otherwise... It is well accepted that the E.U.'s banana regime was specifically designed to expropriate...
...middle is Elian, the little boy plucked from the Atlantic on Thanksgiving Day after the boat carrying him, his mother and 12 others capsized on its way to the U.S. Elian, one of three survivors, floated for two days on an inner tube. The Cubans insist he belongs with his only living parent, his father Juan Miguel Gonzalez, 31. The Cuban Americans say Elian should be allowed to live with the freedom his mother wanted...