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...view, supported by last Friday's quickie polls, was that those conservatives walked away from Bush's "failed, status quo" presidency and will turn to Clinton as the only remaining nonincumbent agent of change. This analysis (spun to negate the Democrats' earlier hope that Bush and Perot would eventually lock themselves in a death grip that would carry both over the precipice) holds that Perot's followers were, like Clinton, fiscal conservatives and social liberals...
...Paul Stevens. They produced majorities in favor of sustaining the ban on school prayer and strengthening the power of federal courts to review the convictions or sentences of state prisoners. These rulings made conservatives question their assumption that 12 years of Reagan- Bush appointments had produced a right-wing lock on the court. But in order to join the 5-to-4 majority that reaffirmed abortion rights last week, Kennedy had to step away from his own earlier opposition to Roe v. Wade, which he signaled just three years ago when he put his name to a withering attack...
...skaters dart backwards and forwards along the river, effortlessly combining powerful speed and delicate, intricate footwork. Members of the team lock arms and glide through the cones in a line, periodically unlatching and reassembling. The swaying motion is almost hypnotic...
Yale:1. Broke. 2. Leaderless 3. New Haven lock factory. 4. Where you would have gone if you didn't get into Harvard...
...deal. Another way of reducing risk is to depend on proven hitmakers. CBS and ABC in particular have signed a number of top creators to ! exclusive long-term deals. These favored producers not only are virtually assured of getting their shows on the air; they seem to have a lock on the best time periods as well. Diane English's new CBS comedy Love and War, for example, will have the all-but-foolproof spot following English's current hit, Murphy Brown. Hearts Afire, the new series from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, will also get an enviable time period: after Bloodworth...