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...perfect legislative world, he could calibrate bills so cleverly, pack them so guilefully, that he would look good if Clinton signed and Clinton would look bad if he didn't. (Imagine Bill's Dilemma: Will it hurt me with my liberal base if I sign it? Will it poison me with Perot voters if I don't?) But Dole's world is changed now. He must reckon with a possibly uncooperative House, led by fractious freshmen who suspect Dole of selling out and last week pleaded with Dick Armey to be their champion. He must deal with the dogged Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOB & BILL'S BELTWAY BAKE-OFF | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...about a way for Forbes to persevere as a candidate of ideas without terminally alienating the Republican Party. Dal Col himself was mindful of the example of Jim Baker, George Bush's 1980 campaign manager, who yanked his eager candidate out of the race so that it would not poison Bush's chances of becoming Ronald Reagan's Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: BLOODIED BUT UNCOWED | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...fact, of course, the moral depravity and legal poison which bespatter the blueprint of the Confederacy--the Confederate Constitution of 1861--and the enormous, government sanctioned advantage that gave whites over blacks lasted until the passage of the civil rights and voting rights acts in 1964 and 1965. Given that history, a history which remains as fresh as today's news, I'd say that it takes a special attraction to the evasion of moral responsibility toward one's fellow human beings, which the old Confederates of the 19th century--and the neo-Confederates of today--exemplify, to declare there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Statute of Limitations for Confederacy's Evil | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

...beef and tears are for naught. Odibei turns toward the spirit world and takes care of everything. With the help of a concoction, she manages to hypnotize Ogwama and has her drink a pot of poison. She dies. Uloko discovers his beloved's lifeless body and sips some of the deadly liquid. He dies...

Author: By Fabian Giraldo, | Title: Melodrama Can't Sink 'Wedlock' | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...February. The antinetwork rhetoric from many reformers sounds strikingly like that directed against another industry charged with making a harmful product. "The TV industry has to be socially responsible," says Harvard child psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles. "We're now going after the tobacco companies and saying, 'Don't poison people.' It seems to me, the minds of children are being poisoned all the time by the networks. I don't think it's a false analogy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: CHIPS AHOY | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

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