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...Veterans Administration under President Carter and a three-term secretary of state in Georgia. Millner, a wealthy businessman who looks as if he could be Dole's younger brother, spent $2 million more on the campaign than his Democratic opponent while trying to stick the standard "liberal" label on him. But Cleland carefully distanced himself from President Clinton and followed his own counsel to "stay in the sensible center." That broad appeal, coupled with his heroic background, made Cleland unbeatable, even though Southern Democrats hadn't won an open Senate seat since...
...stuck to tax cutting, as Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes kept insisting, or run against abortion and vulgar pop culture, as William Bennett and the Christian right were hoping? At one time or another, Dole tried to run all those ways, so his loss cast a shadow over every label and lets every wing of the party read the returns in the way that suits it best. But when the fighting is over, the only question that will really matter is this one: If the Republican Party is in pieces again, who picks them...
Born in Milwaukee, Hammond was under contract with a record label in New York City...
...produced 16 No. 1 hits. On last week's Billboard singles charts, three of the Top 10 songs--the Clapton single, Toni Braxton's Un-Break My Heart and Edmonds' own This Is for the Lover in You--either were written by him or were on his record label, LaFace. "On any given week 40% to 60% of the Top 10 records are R.-and-B. records," says Tommy Mottola, head of Sony Records (and husband of singer Mariah Carey, yet another superstar who has worked with Edmonds). "That's a huge slice of the market, and Kenny exerts...
...must not be fooled by the fact that the scripts of these cases sound like those of many other sexual harassment cases. Using the term sexual harassment" here can only be harmful. In fact, to label these cases as such subverts the very purpose of sexual harassment laws. These laws are about making sure that circumstances do not put women at a disadvantage, not for the protection of women in general. To make special laws protecting women is to institutionalize their status as victims. Extending the umbrella of sexual harassment to include the kisses of six-year-olds employs...