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...strategy that would best serve his re-election plans. Should he blame the G.O.P. for cutting popular programs like Medicare, or should he join the budget-balancing campaign by seeking a compromise? For months, Clinton sided with his wife and other liberal advisers in defending the status quo and refusing to propose any alternative plan for balancing the budget. But at just the moment when that approach appeared to be bearing fruit, with Clinton's poll numbers rising and the Republicans beginning to squabble among themselves over tough spending cuts, the President waffled. During a New Hampshire radio interview...
There has always been an intimacy between powerful editors and their favorite powerful designers: legendary Vogue editor in chief Diana Vreeland with Hubert de Givenchy and Halston, the quid with the quo. But the magazine recession of the early 1990s, which intensified the scramble for ad pages everywhere, made the cozy relationships even cozier. During that period, design companies amassed even more advertising clout. The economic pressure has eased lately-for instance, ad pages through May are up 16% for Elle and 9% for Glamour over last year. Still, the compromises remain...
This is nowhere more evident than in his 1996 budget, a stunning defense of the status quo. It is a document so devoid of change, so wedded to existing programs, so blithely and defiantly bloated-the Congressional Budget Office calculates that by 2000 it will produce a deficit of $276 billion -- that the Senate rejected...
Instead, the executive board convened and decided to carry on with the status quo, council-only elections of officers next semester and to decide on by-laws changes at the first meeting next year. Liston, who engineered both the amendment and the proposed bylaws changes, will graduate this spring...
...nearly impossible to export the First Amendment to countries without deep roots and habits of freedom. In many parts of the world, journalists lack any tradition of objective reporting. But for the most part, the fight against press freedom comes down to politicians protecting themselves and the status quo...