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Some seem almost hoping for the winners to fail. "If they don't perform, we're likely to put the heat on them," says David Gold of KLIF in Dallas-Fort Worth. "There'll be a lot of angry folks out there, and the talk-show hosts will be leading the charge." They already helped reverse Gingrich's decision , on his $4.5 million book deal. Other hosts are spoiling for a fight. Says Norman Resnick of KHNC in Johnstown, Colorado: "Gingrich is no better than George Bush" -- the sort of apostasy of which only true believers are capable...
...deciding what to admit, Judge Ito will have to perform a particularly fine legal operation. A centuries-old rule of Anglo-American common law holds that jurors should not be told of a defendant's past behavior that is considered too inflammatory for a jury to handle. In all states past crimes are inadmissable as evidence to show that the defendant was predisposed to commit the crime. Thus the judge in William Kennedy Smith's rape trial refused to allow testimony from three young women who each claimed that Smith had assaulted them under similar circumstances. "We fear that...
...earliest recordings that will be broadcast during the orgy, those from the period 1955-1960, Cecil Taylor sounds approximately like a jazz pianist on acid. He performs with the standard format of a jazz combo: piano, bass, drums, and a hornman, in this case, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. The group records several versions of tunes from the standard jazz repertoire. Hearing Taylor perform the Duke Ellington-Billy Strayhorn composition "Johnny Come Lately" has almost the shock value that hearing Jimi Hendrix's version of "The Star Spangled Banner" must have had ten years later. The familiar jazzman's repertoire turns...
...Gingrich's top advisors, Frank Luntz, encourages Republicans to agree to perform the inherently contradictory wishes of the electorate--cutting spending, cutting taxes, increasing military spending and balancing the budget. The Contract is cloaked in Orwellian language ("The Taking Back Our Streets Act," "The American Dream Restoration Act") that demonstrates the GOP's reliance on demagoguery and simplistic propaganda techniques...
Above all, this is an evasion. We are all citizens of the states, as well as the nation, and to say that some problem should be "handled by the states" does not make it go away. The great questions of government are what functions it should perform and how it should perform them. Should we or should we not supply health insurance to those who can't afford it? Should we or should we not require welfare mothers to work? What level of government should perform these functions is an inherently less interesting, and important, question...