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...charged with shielding public broadcasting from political interference. And Tomlinson, who was first named to the CPB board by President Clinton, says that has been exactly his intention. "We needed balance for the sake of public broadcasting," he says, "so that Republicans and conservatives would take it more seriously." His critics counter that he just wants to pressure it to lean right. Says Jeff Chester, executive director of the liberal Center for Digital Democracy: "The idea that a schedule filled with the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Antiques Roadshow, children's programming and British mystery classics is a shrill liberal bastion...
...Some legislators of both parties would find tax reform more palatable if it lifted the Government's income, thus reducing the deficit without further program cuts. Says conservative Commentator Kevin Phillips: "You're not going to see people on the Hill go through this tax-reform thing for the sake of revenue neutrality...
...point he recalls a moment when he and his companions came upon the scene that would become his most famous image, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941). With the last rays of sunset striking the tiny settlement, Adams scrambled to set up his camera, shouting "Get that, for God's sake! We don't have much time!" Not much, but enough for an artist of sublime sensibility to catch light on the run and keep it forever. --By Richard Lacayo
...ambiguities and propagandistic sweep, the plan hints at enough concessions to spur serious negotiating. Only detailed probing at Geneva will determine how much is real and how much is propaganda, and there is room for healthy skepticism. But the heat will be on Washington--both for the sake of winning the battle for public opinion and, more important, for keeping alive the hope of a genuine arms-control breakthrough--to come up with a response as imaginative as Gorbachev's. In arms-control negotiations, skepticism is always necessary but rarely sufficient. --By George J. Church. Reported by James O. Jackson/Moscow...
...will exert, as in the past, all possible efforts for the sake of the hostages. One of the obstacles is an American attitude that attempts to deal with the kidnapers from a position of strength...