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DIED. ARTHUR LIMAN, 64, among his generation's best-known litigators, whose A-list clients included junk-bond king Michael Milken and the Senate Iran-contra committee; of cancer; in New York City. Liman brought a rare exuberance to a career that spanned prosecuting white-collar crime, haranguing Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and investigating the riots at Attica. (The searing Attica report he helped write was nominated for a National Book Award.) The famously disheveled Liman was known for getting so caught up in the advocacy he loved that he sometimes showed up in court with the pants from...
...weakest attachment to political parties, and in 1992 Gen Xers cast a higher percentage of votes for Ross Perot than older adults did. "We have a libertarian streak," says Thau. "We grew up in a period with one instance of government malfeasance and ineptitude after another, from Watergate to Iran-contra to the explosion of the Challenger to Whitewater. We believe government can't be trusted to do anything right...
...examine private behavior, for example Dole's sudden divorce from his first wife or allegations about Clinton and Gennifer Flowers. In fact, under the current rule of confining scrutiny to "public character," only Clinton's is in play (Craig Livingstone, Whitewater pardons, Indonesian money), not Dole's (Nixon and Iran-contra pardons, Dwayne Andreas' money, former financial adviser David Owen's jail term...
...proportions that Americans had lowered the threshold of acceptable moral behavior. When it comes to the highest office in the land, voters have defined the presidency down. Richard Nixon's crimes, John Kennedy's infidelities, Lyndon Johnson's ballot rigging, Ronald Reagan's and George Bush's involvement in Iran-contra--these disclosures have so eroded the moral capital of the highest job in the land that Americans expect less from the man who holds it. Dole can try to argue, as he did last week, that "there is one thing history will not forgive: to hold an office...
...press corps became supine under Reagan. It took a Lebanese newspaper to break the Iran-Contra scandal. The right-wingers who depicted themselves as journalists were allowed in in the Reagan era. Journalistic objectivity was cast as liberalism. A false polarization of objectivity versus conservatism was created, with each side having equivalent status. On the one hand, "This Week With David Brinkley" features Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, George Will, and then for balance Bill Kristol...