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...movie The Contender, the most recent addition to the laundry list of films that have striking correlation with the Clinton administration. In The Contender, the Democratic president nominates a female senator to fill the vice presidential post when the V.P.-elect suddenly dies. Nominee Senator Laine Hanson becomes the object of a smear campaign--a la sexual McCarthyism--orchestrated by a right-wing political predator that probes deep into the secrets of her private life...
...vehement disapproval was occasioned not only by the "repulsive" figurative nature of these new paintings, but their frank politics as well. In addition to a deep appreciation for the everyday object, Guston was also profoundly aware of political and social upheaval, wars, famines, epidemics-not simply in his own time but throughout history-and introduced into his unique pictorialism figurative representations of, among other things, the Ku Klux Klan. As a Jewish-born man who changed his name from Goldstein in his twenties and who experienced first-hand the brutality and violence of the Klan, Guston felt acutely the very...
Voluntary soft-money restraints had been a long time coming in the New York race, which is the object of immense interest (and the target of immense contributions) by outsiders. Because soft money contributions-- money given to political parties for "party building" activites--are unlimited they are a favorite tool of special interests hoping to exert influence on the political process. An unprecedented $342 million of soft money has already been spent throughout the nation in this election year. But both sides in New York wanted the reformer's mantle, and Lazio's posturing at the first debate, although puerile...
...sent to Washington in the previous six years. And it's enough, apparently, to persuade congressional leaders to band together to stop (so far) a proposed bill that would end the Nevada exemption from even reaching the floor of either the House or the Senate. If there is an object lesson here, it is this: Money talks in Washington, and it talks loud enough to drown out supporters of the most well-meaning legislation, no matter how large their numbers, no matter how influential they might seem to be. It's almost as if the gamblers are keeping prominent lawmakers...
Despite a popular misconception, seizure victims don't swallow their tongue. This is a dangerous myth; placing a bite stick or any other object in the mouth of someone having a seizure can do more harm than good...