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President Clinton's re-election campaignhas launched a $2.4 million series of television ads designed to portray the President as tough on crime. The slickly produced spots feature police officers praising the ban on assault weapons: "President Clinton is helping us make this a safer nation." Why so early?TIME White House correspondent James Carneysays: "There are two ways to look at this. One is that it's an absurd amount of money to be spending on political ads sixteen months before the election. But Clinton isn't facing any primary challenge, and he's raised $8 million already...
...find it appalling that days of Our Lives has lowered its standards by using the theme of demonic possession to attract new viewers. As Days fans, we refuse to watch the show until it cleans up its act. Why not portray real-life issues instead of devil possession? What kind of impression will this leave on children and young-adult viewers who are out of school for the summer? LISA CASEY AND ANITA MORRIS Clarksville, Arkansas
...that she makes $12.5 million a film, DEMI MOORE can afford to hire someone younger to play herself. In Now and Then, a low-budget female-bonding movie she's co-producing, Moore, MELANIE GRIFFITH, RITA WILSON and ROSIE O'DONNELL play second fiddle to the girls who portray them as 12-year-olds. And although GABY HOFFMANN (Sleepless in Seattle), THORA BIRCH (Clear and Present Danger), ASHLEIGH ASTON MOORE and CHRISTINA RICCI (Casper) are young, they know the biz. "I didn't try to act 12," says Ricci, 15. "When people try to act younger, they come off looking...
...hear paramilitary-group leaders trying to tidy up their images and portray themselves as patriots, when in reality they are nothing but the Klu Klux Klan in camouflage instead of sheets. While they can believe and hate anything or anyone, they should not be allowed to stockpile military-type weapons or call for the overthrow of the government. I have no desire to live in a police state than monitors my every move, but I feel infinitely more terror at the thought of the kind of country these people seem to want...
Hyun said conservatives have tried to portray affirmative action as a conflict between "meritocracy and egalitarianism," and have used Asian-Americans as "poster children" because some have accused the [University of California] system of capping Asian-American enrollment through quotas...