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...ONLY WE HAD THE LINE-ITEM VETO. FOR YEARS--decades, actually--that wish has been a mantra. Editorial writers, good-government groups and all modern Presidents have wanted to give the Chief Executive the power to comb bloated budget bills and X out the most nonsensical portions, notably the pork-barrel provisions that members of Congress trade among themselves. In fact, straight-shooting members of Congress have been trying to give Presidents this authority since 1876. Forty-three state Governors have had it for years. Now, finally, the call is being answered. Last week the House and Senate approved...
...cast is perfect. Charles Levin knows how to play freaks. As the grotesquely funny Pa Ubu, Levin staggers around the stage as if he's broken his pelvis and cannot rotate his legs. "By my itchy dick" is his mantra. His gruff screams and almost Popeye-like facial expressions play into his wonderfully loathsome demeanor...
...disenchanted with government but fearful of the creative destruction that is producing big winners and a lot of losers in the national economy. Dionne believes that the very technological revolution that Gingrich extols and that is roiling the American economy will hasten the day when the G.O.P.'s antigovernment mantra becomes unworkable...
Feeling good: the mantra of the school self-esteem movement. What about taking away the baggy jeans, the snazzy sneakers, the ever-present baseball caps, the Ralph Lauren sweaters, and making kids feel good in other ways? By raising their hands in class without worrying whether their peers are judging them by their clothes. By feeling free to walk the halls and knowing they won't be attacked for their jewelry or their shoes. By simply doing well in school and not being distracted by such superficialities as clothing...
Despite these evasions, Alexander's "less from Washington" mantra is not an empty slogan. Alone among candidates, the soft-spoken Tennessean goes out of his way to dampen what voters expect. No law passed in Washington, he says, can fix the social pathologies that leave eighth-graders gunned down in a Florida school or crack babies crying in a Michigan clinic. Only community action can. He wants citizens "to get off their butts...