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...recently relied on disciplined party-line votes and seldom even pretended to try to reach a compromise with Democrats. He has admitted that this state of affairs is a disappointment, given his promise to unite and not divide. In an interview with TIME in August, he blamed the rancor on entrenched special interests, as though he were more victim than leader. Washington, he said, turned out to be a nastier place than Texas. But it is natural when the lines are so tightly drawn that neither side wants to hand the other a victory that it can take...
...under the constitution to express their religious faith. Common sense explains that those who have a faith wed their principles to their religious underpinnings. These folks are citizens and have a right to join in the political process. It is the ‘cut and burn’ rancor of the Left that alienates and is destroying the Democratic Party. Itoh needs to think about the duplicity of Democratic leaders sermonizing in black churches while at same time having followers like Itoh saying “wielding religion as a political tool is unacceptable.” What does...
Foxx attributes the lack of good roles to a Hollywood slot system for black comics. "Will Smith has a slot," he says. "Martin Lawrence has a slot. Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, they all have slots. I needed to get a slot." (Foxx says this with no rancor; he believes white actors have it tougher because "there's so damn many of them.") He read for the Rod Tidwell role in Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise (for which Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar), but even after Oliver Stone gave him a breakout part as a rookie quarterback in Any Given...
Though he stepped down from his independent-counsel post nearly five years ago, the partisan rancor created by his investigation of President Bill Clinton has never fully subsided. With Clinton's new book out and Kenneth Starr about to start a job in August as dean of Pepperdine Law School, TIME'S Sonja Steptoe caught up with him for an updated Starr report...
...people with him, but he also made use of it politically. If things got a little heated and tense, he would break the tension with a story. By the time he ended, the mood would have changed, and they got on with the business with no rancor...