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...programs added this year will be a mock "Constitutional Convention" designed to "offer students the chance to debate three proposed amendments to the Constitution, including a balanced budget amendment," according to a press release describing the conference...

Author: By Flora Tartakovsky, | Title: Model Congress to Hold Conference | 2/17/1995 | See Source »

Pfieffer also participated in a mock audition for her role in Grease II as the leader of the Pink Ladies, which elicited hearty laughs from the audience...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Pudding Honors Woman of Year Pfeiffer | 2/14/1995 | See Source »

...left arm shakes almost constantly. But his actor's sense of timing and improvisation remain intact, and on several occasions he spoke without notes--a sign he was in good spirits. At one point in Manila, after a lengthy departure from his prepared speech, the Pope announced slowly, with mock solemnity, ``And now, returning to the text,'' as if he were just coming back from a television commercial break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PILGRIMAGE TO THE EAST | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

Aside from Newt's hour, the network's most talked-about show is Youngbloods, a political round table featuring six men and women in their 20s. The show is set in a mock dorm lounge complete with loud furniture and a lava lamp. The slouching panelists, two moderate liberals among them, fervidly debate everything from the balanced-budget amendment to the death of patriotism. Discussions can be just as entertainingly fiery. When asked how he would handle the Bosnia crisis if he were President, Youngblood Tom Fitton rejoined: "We bomb the Serbs into oblivion until they start acting like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Network That Newt Built | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...they say, even privately. "That's a touchy subject," sighed a top adviser to the President when asked about Mrs. Clinton. Another official joked that it was too risky discussing the First Lady over a White House phone. "You want me to talk about Hillary?" the official asked with mock incredulity. "This is not a secure line." And then he earnestly claimed he had nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Once and Future Hillary | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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