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...interesting game we're playing today. It would have been nice if you would have told me you wanted to talk about this, and I'd have had all my facts with me." Shortly after this hapless performance, Perot announced that he plans to retreat from the spotlight for a while to commune with unnamed policy experts, as if he could acquire ideological direction off the shelf just like a business buying a state-of-the-art computer system...
...Angeles riots have cast a spotlight on the problems of poverty and urban decay. But long before that explosion, the recession put welfare high on the political agenda by swelling public-assistance rolls with legions of unemployed workers. Around 4.7 million households, or 13.6 million individuals, are receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the main cash-assistance program. That's an increase of 24% in the past two years. The number of food-stamp recipients shot up from 20.9 million in October 1990 to 24.2 million a year later. The total cost of these two programs alone...
...part, Ross Perot, still the wild card among the Big Three, tried to scramble out of the political spotlight with a self-imposed hiatus in his un- campaign. The Texas billionaire, citing "saturation bombing" of his offices by the press, beat a strategic retreat to search for answers to the questions he should dread: his specific stands on the budget deficit, health care, urban policy, international aid and every other complex problem that elicits reams of position papers from presidential hopefuls. This clever move comes at the right time, just when the press is beginning to dig its unforgiving claws...
...increasingly crowded stand-up stage, Carlin remains in a spotlight by himself. Most current TV comics are interchangeable: dispensing predictable, painless gags about '90s values, sexual gamesmanship, TV sitcoms and Dan Quayle. After three decades in the business, Carlin, who turns 54 this week, is still testing the limits, challenging his audience, shouting from the depths of his social-activist soul...
Will any of this work for Clinton? History suggests he's playing a losing hand, that civil disturbance favors those whose first priority is law and order. But Phillips says that the bankruptcy of Bush's urban record may mean that as "the spotlight of morality shifts from Clinton's personal failings to racial detente -- where Clinton has a clear advantage -- it is hard to see how it will not get hot for the man who introduced Willie Horton into the lexicon of American politics...