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...weeks ago. Says Al From, executive director of the Democratic Leadership Council: "The Bush presidency has finally begun. Rather than continue to act as a caretaker, he has to make real decisions that carry a political price." If, for example, he vetoes the pending civil rights bill, Bush will offend the middle-class blacks he has been courting. But if he signs it, he will anger businessmen, who fear that the bill will encourage many costly damage suits...
...monthly even when these aims do not make good financial sense. "I try to keep a very, very light hand on the editorial side of the paper," he says. "Certainly I have never tried to say, 'Don't do this or don't write that because it will offend this advertiser.' I wouldn't think of it. I'd be history...
...Spice. Even when Suzanne and Julia of Designing Women jetted off on vacation to Japan, probably the world's safest nation, their luggage was promptly stolen in Tokyo's Narita Airport. The thieves, of course, belonged to a criminal class that now exists only on shows determined not to offend anyone's sensibilities: American hippies...
...past, the club's discussion was centered around, 'Is this going to offend anyone? Is Dean [of Students Archie C.] Epps going to get mad?'" Anderson recalls. "That's a waste. You compromise all your positions and you're not taking stances...
...movie isn't handsome or measured or seamless -- the very notion of a well-made film would offend the director's antiaesthetic -- but once it gets revved up, Cry-Baby is keen fun from the onetime Belial of Baltimore. From now on, Hollywood, that's Mr. Waters...