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MISTER ROGERS has finally found a neighbor he'd like to run out of town. Gadzooks, Inc., a Texas-based company, has been selling T shirts of the preternaturally placid TV host packing heat and daring neighbors to enter his "hood." As Fred Rogers is loath to suggest that he has ever strapped on a holster beneath his well-worn cardigan, his company, Family Communications, Inc., is suing Gadzooks, alleging that the T shirts violate Rogers' privacy and wrongly benefit from his image. Plus, says his lawyer, "it's bad for the kids." A spokesperson for Gadzooks says the offending...
...reason was the leadership vacuum in the House G.O.P. Newt Gingrich was out of the picture, and Speaker-elect Livingston was loath to guide impeachment proceedings, perhaps because he feared that his own extramarital affairs would be exposed. Control of the process had fallen to House whip Tom DeLay, the hardest of anti-Clinton hard-liners, who had ensured that moderates favoring censure had no place...
...company that was once loath to play in the political sandbox, Microsoft sure has come around. Mere days before the opening of Microsoft's court battle with antitrust lawyers, the G.O.P.'s senatorial committee pulled in a $100,000 contribution from the company, and the Republican National Committee got a $40,000 check--bringing the software giant's soft-money gifts to the party to more than $400,000 in the 1997-98 election cycle. Coincidentally, about that time, 10 Republican Senators signed a "Dear Colleague" letter criticizing the CLINTON Administration for subjecting the software industry to "needless regulation through...
...company that was once loath to play in the political sandbox, Microsoft sure has come around. Mere days before the opening of Microsoft?s court battle with antitrust lawyers, the GOP?s senatorial committee pulled in a $100,000 contribution from the company, and the Republican National Committee got a $40,000 check ?- bringing the software giant?s soft-money gifts to the party to more than $400,000 in the 1997-98 election cycle. Coincidentally, about that time, 10 Republican senators signed a ?Dear Colleague? letter criticizing the Clinton administration for subjecting the software industry to ?needless regulation through...
There is a fine line between activism and fanaticism, but several aspects of fanaticism are significant enough that should make us loath to return to those days of good intentions gone horribly awry, the early 1990s. For one thing, activists turned into absolutists. Healthy debate got thrown out the window. It's hard to have a spirited, enlightened discussion when both sides have set up their snow forts on each side of the lawn, nobody venturing forth into the middle lest he or she be pelted by a barrage of threats, epithets, and slurs, all delivered with the subtlety...