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...most litigious of the hate-TV crowd. He | has sued the city of Houston over a $100 fee it charges to non-locally produced access programs, and is waging a legal battle in Boston over a string of roadblocks he claims the cable company has put in his path...
...young Marxists are advocating economic change before political change -- the path the Chinese insist they are taking, in contrast to the approach favored by Mikhail Gorbachev when he ran the Soviet Union. "Communist parties around the world have faced our same dilemma, the sequence of reform," says Monreal. "In Cuba's case, the choice was to promote economic reform first. That will transform the state." The yummies admit that major alterations in the political system are unlikely anytime soon. "How can you open up political reform while the economy is a mess? It's suicidal," argues political scientist Santiago Perez...
Weakened during his first 20 weeks in office, Clinton appears to be seeking the path of least resistance. He is hosting small dinner parties for the Washington insiders he once vowed to ignore. He withdrew from hard-nosed budget bargaining in part to avoid further loss of political capital. Some of this is pragmatic politics, because to remain in the fray over arcane tax provisions, said a White House official, "is a prescription for failure." But there are also signs that Clinton is increasingly spooked by opposition of almost any size. Last week he backed away from a widely leaked...
...intend to do the things you elected me for, but I can't do them all by myself. For every positive change I propose -- in health, in education, the environment, whatever -- powerful interests will stand in our path, and the lobbyists will swarm around each Congressperson like flies. Therefore the only way we will move ahead is if you, my fellow citizens, will get involved and mobilize a mighty force for change. You will have to lobby and petition and otherwise raise a fuss in order to make up with your numbers what you lack now in power and wealth...
...clash of shaven- headed close friends: Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan. On paper, the league's Most Valuable Player this season vs. the greatest player in the sport. In practice, a bowling ball of a man who hurtles downcourt at top speed, knocking down everything in his path, against the coolest bird around, who has a part-time home in the heavens. The Round Mound of Rebound against Air Jordan...