Word: nonpartisan
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...grew to be an impressive young man--intelligent, articulate, judicious, persuasive, well defined but never full of himself, exceptionally attractive. He invented George as the Vanity Fair formula applied to politics, and he steered the magazine in a resolutely nonpartisan course. He loved the editorial work, loved conducting interviews with everyone from Fidel Castro to George Wallace, loved the variety and eccentricity of American politics. He was not a front man but patrolled every aspect of the job. His staff admired and adored him. But one felt it was a transitional stage...
...when prosperity should have rendered these problems moot. Nothing in his speech was new; none of his statistics were shocking. Democrats in the audience surely agreed with most of Cuomo's ideas; Republicans, predictably, would have loved to debate him. But the crux of Cuomo's speech was nonpartisan and unpredictable indeed, because what Cuomo wanted to talk about was not government but redemption...
...exonerate Gingrich -- it dealt only with the foundation itself -- nor did it address the merits of the House ethics violations case that resulted in the fine. But the ruling did support Gingrich's long-standing claim that the course was a legitimate, nonpartisan academic endeavor. In any normal political period, the IRS ruling would have been headline news, most ardently trumpeted by Gingrich and his allies. But "that was three scandals ago," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, "and besides, Gingrich no longer holds power." Nevertheless, the IRS ruling will go a long way "to remove the taint...
...Crimson editors, in implying a Christian bent on the King-Driskell campaign, reveal their failure to examine the platform for its specific, nonpartisan and progressive goals. They have fallen prey to the very slander that was an attempt to divert the message of the campaign-making it that much clearer that Harvard lacks the attributes of the true community King and Driskell wish to build. SARA NAYEEM...
...keeps her private life so private that some of her co-workers were not really aware of her divorce, her courtship with the man who became her second husband, or the deaths last year of her brother and her sister. She is regarded by nearly everyone as apolitical and nonpartisan, but over 10 years and three elections she became a minor franchise player on Democratic presidential campaigns. "For a woman who's been around politics as long as she has, it does not appear that aggression has kept her in the game," says a Clinton White House veteran. "Being nice...