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...Dukakis' opposition to the death penalty and his veto of a bill requiring public-school teachers to recite the Pledge of Allegiance spurred Republicans to claim he was out of touch with the American mainstream. The Bush-Cheney team will echo the assault, noting that Kerry also opposes the death penalty, although he makes an exception for terrorists. You can see the ad now: Does Kerry really believe, the narrator might say, that it's O.K. to execute an al-Qaeda operative who blows up a bus but not a gangster who shoots up a restaurant? Republicans will also press...
More than any other modern movie mogul, Miramax's Harvey Weinstein has changed the film industry, taking small, independent films out of the art-house ghetto and into the mainstream. He has also been skewered in a new book for his fearsome temper and ego. He talked with Time's Jeffrey Ressner about that reputation, and a Miramax film that suffered an unexpected snub...
...Gays and lesbians across the country celebrated the ruling; in Massachusetts , same sex couples contacted local town clerks to plan their own ceremonies. But other Americans worry that even as a freedom has been granted, an institution has been threatened. "If we have homosexual marriage mainstream, I can't even describe to you what our culture would be like," warns Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women for America , a leading anti-gay-marriage group. Many conservatives object that such a monumental social change was sanctioned by such a small group - four of seven judges on the Massachusetts court. The court...
It’s always a pleasant surprise to hear that kind of mainstream liberal rhetoric coming from a staunch conservative like Bush. But the taste of free opportunity soured somewhat as the president’s next words—outlining a vague but far-reaching plan for reforming federal immigration law—completely undermined the ideals to which he had paid half-hearted lip service...
...think that all of them should come out in favor of gay marriage, but currently the political atmosphere in the United States is not conducive in most mainstream politics,” said Schneider, who is also a Crimson editor...