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Candelaria, who will be 33 years old next month, teamed with Mike Witt, Kirk McCaskill and Don Sutton to give California a solid rotation on a team that finished second in the league in pitching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candelaria, Boyd Match-Up in Game 3 | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...perils of preaching moderation were underscored last week when the Democratic Policy Commission, a group of 100 elected officials from all levels of government chartered by Party Chairman Paul Kirk, published what amounts to a midterm platform. Titled New Choices in a Changing America, it is crammed with sensible proposals of modest caliber. But its most striking feature is its emphasis on moderate and mainstream chords, like the importance of family values. Some of the phrases might have come from a Reagan speech. For example: ". . . the political arrogance that would have bureaucrats run our economy and dictate our daily lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberal and Populist Tugs | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

LAST FALL, Democratic National Chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. '60 and his cadre of politicos at the Democratic National Committee put together a new "Policy Commission" to inject some excitement into their moribund party. The mandate of this fearsome phalanx was to hunt down some New Ideas and forge them in the Great Democratic Furnace. The desired result? A new image for the Democratic Party...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: Democrats Adrift | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

...WROTE MUCH the same thing in this space almost a year ago, when Paul Kirk came to the Kennedy School to tout his newly-refurbished party apparatus. After he did away with the messy minority caucuses and added the Policy Commission, I co-authored a position paper to help create a new image for the Democrats. But I wrote it on the naive assumption that they were not looking to mimic Ronald Reagan's message, but to create a new one they could actually call their own. Silly...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: Democrats Adrift | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

...biggest single cause of Turner's current balance-sheet problem is the MGM/UA acquisition from wily Owner Kirk Kerkorian. Analysts estimate that Turner overpaid as much as several hundred million dollars for the moviemaking studio and its assets, especially a rich library of some 3,600 films that includes such gems as Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. In the process the Atlanta tycoon had to raise nearly $1.2 billion, mostly by issuing high- interest junk bonds, thereby pushing TBS's total debt to nearly $2 billion. He now faces a $600 million repayment that comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing Close to the Wind | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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