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...years ago, when they say they worked out their differences--to a so-called "open" relationship. During Clinton's first term in office, Hillary used her maiden name. Only after it became a political liability for Bill--open marriages and women's liberation don't fly in Smack-over, Ark.--did she become Mrs. William J. Clinton...
...debate over the virtues of economic carrots and sticks. "It's been demonstrated that incentives work," says University of Chicago economics professor Gary Becker. "The controversy is over magnitude." But some critics charge that Thompson's policies -- which basically seek to force welfare recipients to learn, work and wed -- smack of Big Brotherism. They also accuse the Governor of oversimplifying poverty and human motivation. Changing behavior, notes Theodore Marmor, a political science professor at Yale, "is a lot more complex than simpleminded microeconomics." Some even sense a veiled racism. "It's no longer permissible to make direct appeals based...
...commercialism prevalent on the pop charts today. To promote that "mission," the album dissects a British society rife with "squalid poverty where the poor prey on the even poorer," says Coughlan. Included on the album are the songs Ceausescu Flashback; Look What I Stole for Us, Darling; and More Smack, Vicar...
...everyone is happy about his execution. Peggy Charren, founder and president of Action for Children's Television in Cambridge, Mass., says the issue has been overblown in the press and criticizes CBS's rush to judgment: "It begins to smack of McCarthyism, where people were being pulled off the air before they were convicted of anything." Perhaps the real crime, the one , for which Reubens has been so relentlessly pilloried, was the successful pretense of childishness. The kids always knew he was playing, but, evidently, not many adults did. Ordinary show-business thugs and malefactors can get away with...
...sure he hopes there'll be no one to challenge his ideas for the next couple of months. He does have some good ones, and deserves credit for them. But even though he couches them in conciliatory rhetoric, many of his plans smack of the same xenophobic economic isolationism that American politicians tend to gravitate towards in bleak economic times...