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...teach eighth-graders -- and, presumably, Bob Dole -- a history lesson. "It's very important that, at your age, you understand things about the history of our country and you understand what the time you're living in is all about," Clinton told children at Abraham Lincoln Middle School in Selma. To others who would listen, he added: "Education is not supposed to be a partisan political football, and it should not be when Congress returns." TIME's Michael Duffy says presidents have often used Labor Day weekend to clarify their legislative priorities and to set the tone for their...
...Ness compared her group's efforts toparticipate in the St. Patrick's parade to thestruggles fought by civil rights leaders whosought to march in Selma, Ala., in the 1960s...
...ghettos. As the series moves into the 1960s, familiar urban dynamics start to appear: the emergence of gangs and drug-related violence, as well as the arrival of civil rights activists, who fought to integrate the city and faced opposition as fierce as anything encountered in Little Rock or Selma...
Stephanopoulos was joined by Secretary of the Interior Bruce E. Babbitt, who pledged support for AmeriCorps and described how his own work in 1965 as a civil rights worker in Selma, Ala, changed his life...
...Band Played On," ostensibly the subject of this review, is a good drama. Ian McKellen (playing Bill Kraus, a gay San Francisco political aide) and Lily Tomlin (playing Selma Dritz, a San Francis-co Health worker torn between her conflicting concerns for the heath and the freedom of the gay community) display exceptional talent. Matthew Modine plays the "young, handsome doctor" passionately, although he probably won't win an Oscar...