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...campaign of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter offered, well, it offered Jonathan Steinberg. Unlike the paid political professionals manning most of the campaign booths, Steinberg is a Mather House junior who spent his summer interning at the Senator's Philadelphia campaign headquarters. In delegating a task otherwise held by the head of a candidate's New Hampshire office, the campaign made a genuine effort to build grass-roots support among students. Specter asks for our support based on politics, not props...
...tough to get people fired up to be moderate," Steinberg says of his efforts. Though Specter may seem moderate in this era of radical rightism, in reality he is anything but. As an economic and fiscal conservative and social libertarian, the three-term Senator has become the point man for liberal Republicans in their battle against the ominous forces of the "Religious Right." None other than Barry Goldwater has lent him support in the fight against "far-right groups in our party...
...settlement will not spare the FBI from Senate hearings scheduled for next month by Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a Republican presidential hopeful who wants to determine just how the attempt to arrest Weaver on a weapons charge got so spectacularly out of hand. For one thing, Specter wants to shed light on a central controversy: Who approved radically revised rules of engagement for the incident? Those orders let agents shoot to kill any armed male spotted in the open. Regulations ordinarily allow deadly force only in the face of immediate physical danger. "I bridle at the inability to find answers...
...Brothers McMullen might be the bad movie Nick Reve is trying not to make. The acting is mostly stodgy, especially by the family trio. Burns' dialogue reeks of the page; it's cluttered with more adjectives than a D+ student paper. And when the specter of clunky writing isn't hanging over the actors, the shadow of a boom mike...
...Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone) and their romantic angst," saysCorliss. "They talk, soulfully. They fret, winsomely. They annoy, a lot. The acting is mostly stodgy, especially by the family trio. Burns' dialogue reeks of the page; it's cluttered with more adjectives than a D+ student paper. And when the specter of clunky writing isn't hanging over the actors, the shadow of a boom mike...