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...some of the centrist issues put forth Monday in the DLC's 10-point alternative to the House Republican "Contract with America." The DLC's plan includes a line-item veto, deep budget cuts and big changes in welfare. White House officials tell TIME's Carney that Clinton will lay out his own initiatives in a major speech later this month -- rather than early next year, a more traditional time for such presidential pronouncements. Why? New GOP House Speaker Gingrich "will be active in early January, and they're worried that by the time Clinton speaks...
...best French artists of the past two centuries -- not only the classicists like Ingres, for whom Poussin's lucidity and intellectual control were a model, but more romantic ones as well, from Delacroix to Picasso, all of whom sensed the depth of response to the world that lay below the surface of the painter's art. "Each time I go to him," said Cezanne, "I know better...
Gould isn't afraid to challenge the basis of The Bell Curve's questionable research, something which many of his colleagues have shied away from. Lay reviewers, he notes, have let themselves become frightened by the statistics and charts thrown at them by Murray and Herrnstein, materials which are filled with errors and misapplied research...
...when Blacks faced seemingly insurmountable segregation in Southern schools, Griswold served as an expert witness in several of the cases used to lay the foundation for the Supreme Court's desegregation order in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka...
...this election's hottest political consultant? Who can lay claim to being the James Carville of the mid-1990s? Analyst Kevin Phillips, author of Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics, cautions that given the lopsided nature of the returns, "this election is not one in which you could grade Democratic and Republican consultants." Right, and winning isn't everything. Here's a look at the Senate and gubernatorial records of some prominent sharpies-for-hire...