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...Carolina." Bush wants to convince Carolina Republicans that he is the only conservative in the race--that McCain is a closet Clinton who won in New Hampshire because the state has become a hilly suburb of Boston, Taxachusetts. That's a tough sell, since McCain has always been a staunch conservative--pro-life, pro-gun, antitax, antiregulation. But Bush argues that McCain's advocacy of campaign-finance reform and his opposition to whopping tax cuts mean he has abandoned his ideals. The argument is designed to shore up Bush's right-wing support in South Carolina, but it wasn...
...Overall, while Harvard students may not be as liberal as they once were, students remain staunch supporters of much of the liberal rubric...
...Kansas City Star reported Sunday, attempts to suppress the human sex drive can have devastating consequences. According to the Star, AIDS-related illnesses are killing Roman Catholic priests at a rate four times higher than in the general population, and many experts are blaming the church's staunch refusal to educate its members about sexuality and safe sex methods. Because while the average parishioner can pick and choose from the church's teachings, and find other means of education, priests and nuns have no such luxury; they are bound to their vows in every aspect of their lives...
DIED. KEN W. CLAWSON, 63, director of communications for the Nixon White House in its final months; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. A staunch loyalist before and after the resignation, he once told the New York Times, "I'm just one of Richard Nixon's spear carriers and proud...
...McCain's position on American intervention has also wavered. In 1983 he stood up to one of his idols, Ronald Reagan, and called for a pullout of Marines from Lebanon. He was a staunch supporter of the Gulf War and the initial humanitarian mission in Somalia but demanded U.S. troops be withdrawn after the combat deaths of 18 Americans there. McCain vacillated over the Balkans: in 1993 he opposed air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs, but in late 1995 he lobbied hard to secure Senate support for Clinton's deployment of troops to enforce the Dayton peace agreement. McCain quickly...