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As fascinating as polls may be, they are quickly turning democracy into a spectator sport. Reporters spend more of their time telling us what the verdicts of the people are rather than how they came to those verdicts. Political pundits increasingly debate what Americans really think, rather than what they...
The cheers from the crowd had barely died downwhen almost every spectator, player and coach fellsilent. In the fifth minute of play, Fosterchallenged a Yale player for a header on the nearsideline in front of the team benches. Foster wonthe ball but then fell to the ground, writhing inpain.
WASHINGTON: Get ready for the Bill Gates Show. In one of the most bizarre twists of the antitrust action against Microsoft, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson agreed Tuesday to turn Chairman Bill's forthcoming deposition into a spectator sport. Lawyers for several media companies had resurrected an obscure turn-of-the...
Your chart showing Richard Mellon Scaife's support of various conservative causes [NATION, June 22] mentioned the political biography I wrote on the President, Boy Clinton. I must protest your description of it as an "attack book." That sounds terribly grim. Far more accurate was your reference a few months...
But his own cases encompass a very large patch. Klayman operates like a smaller-scale but even more freewheeling independent counsel, using civil lawsuits to go after Clinton's circle to its most outlying ripples. (He first got noticed in 1996 after he took a deposition from John Huang, the...