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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Months ago, the White House gave up its naive notion that Clinton might establish personal rapport with Perot. For the President to attack him frontally is also futile. So the Clinton circle is studying Perot's constituency with extensive polling and focus groups, looking for ways to win over a large segment of it. The main conclusion: only when Clinton demonstrates that he can lower the deficit and genuinely reform government will he get a hearing from Perot's minions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Marriage of Convenience | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...Conference on Human Rights in Vienna last week, certain governments argued that human rights were a culturally relative notion. The practices listed below, alleged by Amnesty International and Asia Watch, don't quite seem like innocent local customs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Torture | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

...wide of the mark. Far from lending support to Middle Eastern despotisms, Said has harshly criticized them. He spoke out (while academe remained largely silent) for Salman Rushdie against the Iranian mullahs and their fatwa: "Those of us from the Moslem part of this world cannot accept the notion that democratic freedoms should be abrogated to protect Islam." He has inveighed against Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez Assad in Syria. The "traditional discourse" of Arab nationalism, he wrote on the eve of the Gulf War, is "unresponsive, anomalous, even comic." The Arab media are "a disgrace," incapable of dealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Envoy To Two Cultures: EDWARD SAID | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...there hasn't been a theme at all except for the soothingly content-free notion of "change." The much battered economic program, for example: What is the theme, if any, of that? It maintains military spending at cold-war levels, thus foreclosing any serious new spending on domestic programs. It proposes to raise taxes on the six-figure crowd, though by no means up to pre-Reagan rates, while imposing a grossly regressive energy or sales tax on the average consumer. It offers earned-income tax credits for the poor but makes up for this leftish move with a surfeit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lurch to The Left? You're Kidding | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...Clinton had been a man of the left, that is, if his notion of change was genuine and progressive in the old-fashioned sense . . . and if, furthermore, his populism was more than a campaign affectation . . . and if he was, in addition, able to speak in something other than that weirdly uninflected mumble, he might have gone straight to the public and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lurch to The Left? You're Kidding | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

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