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California Republican Gov. Pete Wilsontoday established an exploratory committee to raise money and organize supporters for a 1996 presidential campaign.Former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexanderquickly tried to mute the impact, attacking Wilson at a press conference for breaking his 1994 campaign promise not to seek the presidency if re-elected governor. He also branded Wilson as more liberal than himself on taxes and abortion. Both candidates have raised taxes as governors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INCHING TOWARDS THE WHITE HOUSE | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

...World's Oldest Living Bolshevik (first seen in Angels), the ferociously bored lesbian (Marisa Tomei, in a sly, engaging performance) who guards the aforementioned brains, and an eight-year-old girl whose grandparents were exposed to radiation and passed down to her a genetic flaw that has rendered her mute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Red Sunset | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

Fugui returns to his liberated village. As he reaches the entrance he sees Jiazhen and Fengxia delivering water door to door. Soon Fugui learns of his mother's death and that Fenxia, after a serious illness, is now mute. As always, life goes...

Author: By Jonathan Bonanno, | Title: An Ordinary Man Lives a Poignant Life | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

...which in its harshness made even a few supporters squeamish. The case for NAFTA has always focused on the long term: that freer trade would slowly boost prosperity on both sides of the border, notwithstanding acute growing pains; and that by making Mexicans less threatening neighbors, it would eventually mute the raw nativism that is surfacing in California and elsewhere. That case looks at least as strong today as a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Perot Is Still Wrong | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...denies; he clarifies. Every word, every musing, every hyperbolic expression is recorded and decoded. Newt Gingrich, the incoming House speaker, has dominated the debate as few politicians ever do. Even Bill Clinton, still conflicted about What It All Means a month after the Republicans' midterm rout, seems almost mute before Newt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Reinventing Bill Clinton | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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