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...attack-dog mode. He's spending the week trawling California for stray Buchanan voters. His bait: With Buchanan out of the way, he is the most prominent conservative candidate left in the GOP primary. California is a particularly tough sell -- voters rejected a school vouchers program, a key Forbes plank, a few years ago, and his anti-abortion stance doesn't play well there. Still, with Buchanan nearly out of the picture, Forbes may be the best alternative for Republican protest voters, which means more attack speeches could...
First, Freddie's death was entirely our fault, whereas in my aunt's case, accountability for death was spread all over the meat-packing plant. There, one person herded the hogs into the hall; one person led them into the holding pen; one person pushed them up the plank; one person knocked them unconscious with a stun gun. Someone else pushed them onto the conveyor belt and yet another person operated the belt that processed the animals. "You know, I didn't really kill them," my aunt said...
Several students objected to a proposed plank calling on Harvard to maintain as single-sex those Radcliffe programs that are currently limited to women...
...Republicans crank up the election machinery for the next congressional election, a small group of congressmen are feeling a particular pang: Should they honor the pledge they made in 1994, in conjunction with the failed term-limit plank of the Contract with America, to quietly exit in 2000? At least 10 GOP incumbents face that question. The answer has implications for the personal and political integrity of each member -- and for the continued Republican control of Congress...
...more than that, the erasing of the line of separation so that religious influence on political life (which has always existed on the perimeters) will become a mainstream expectation. Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council may run for President. Dan Quayle has already announced that a main plank of his presidential platform will be the ever-popular--and incredibly vague--"family values." When he used that phrase in reference to "Murphy Brown" in 1992, many of us recoiled at the thought of such an issue taking center stage in our political debate. Now, he's returning...