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With 77 women running for Governor or the Congress, WMCs might be forgiven for wondering why a woman can't be more like a man. Treating a woman like a lady -- or even worse, a girl -- can seem condescending and patronizing. But being too rough also has its perils. Humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Ball Game | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

The most contentious issue of this week's summit may also be the most important foreign policy challenge facing the U.S. in the '90s: how to keep the peace in Europe now that the cold war is over. George Bush not only wants to preserve NATO, with a united Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Fear of Weimar Russia | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Yes, folks, these are hosts of radio call-in shows. Such programs, of course, have long served as a sort of national party line, a place where average citizens can rant, in blissful anonymity, about everything from the local baseball team's losing streak to the Bush Administration's arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bugle Boys Of the Airwaves | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

The TV debates may be bad. But the way in which Babbitt cast aspersions on the debates was significant--he said "the League of Women Voters" as though those words were a put-down in and of themselves. He used the group as an adjective to signify weak and laughable...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Babbitt and the Gov Jocks | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

From early 1986, when George Bush set out on his long trek toward the Oval Office, Roger Ailes has been struggling to make more than just cosmetic changes in the Vice President. Ailes, 48, is the legendary dark prince of political advertising, the Republican consultant who helped engineer Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans;The Man Behind the Message | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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