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...time last week in meeting with investment advisers about putting his company on the block. Says he: "The good news is my company's a whole lot more valuable because the major players need content even more." Last week, too, there were rumors that Turner may be trying to regain greater control of his company. The speculation was that Turner, together with Bronfman, was hatching a deal to swap Bronfman's Time Warner shares for Time Warner's holdings in Turner Broadcasting...
...result of the increase in Republicans in Congress, Blacks are getting less and less support from others in the legislature and their current political influence will continue to decline. As Charles S/ Burlock III, a professor at the University of Georga, wrote in a paper, "If Democrats do not regain control of Congress, African American legislators will have become marginalized as a minority within the minority party...If southern state Democratic parties become riven between liberal Black and conservative white factions, the prospects for Republican victories up and down the ticket will be enhanced...
...have joined the G.O.P. since November, and more defections are probably coming. At least three other Southern conservative Democrats have made it clear that they are itching to jump ship. A larger number are likely to retire rather than run in 1996. That would make the Democrats' quest to regain control of the House in 1996 little more than a pipe dream. "To gain the seats the Democrats need to be the majority in the House will be really, really, really hard," said congressional expert Charles Cook. Two weeks ago, he put their chances...
Since April, however, the organization has gone through significant internal reform. Today, many politicians, both friends and foes of the CCA, believe the group will regain its strength--and perhaps become an even stronger, more unified organization...
...understand the economic and social changes of the emerging, non-communist Russia. "The breakup of the Soviet Union was the right thing to do. But in trying to regain our rights, we are discovering that we have no rights left. We are losing the essential benefits of a socialist society-the right to work, the right to a free education, the right to housing." The children in her classrooms may be able to adapt to the new system, she says, but her own generation is lost. "We're the discarded generation. Our mentality, our habits are of a previous...