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TEMPE, AZ: Who will triumph in Sun Devil Stadium Sunday, when the swaggering Dallas Cowboys meet the gritty Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XXX? Sportswriter Steve Wulf weighs in with his prediction: "The only area where the Steelers have the upper hand is in the coaching department, and Bill Cowher is not that much better of a coach than Barry Switzer, so I think the Cowboys will win going away. The Cowboys should win by more than two touchdowns...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Proving that his is not a one-issue candidacy, presidential contender Steve Forbes gave Ted Koppel a glimpse of his foreign policy on ABC's "Night Line" Wednesday. Forbes suggested that the United States stop the arms-control talks known as START II, and allow Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic into NATO. He added that he was not in favor of sending American peacekeepers to the Golan Heights. But it was his statement suggesting that the U.S. move "ahead with a sensible anti-ballistic missile defense system" that may invite more snickering from his opponents. The multi...
...candidate knows he's hot when he finds himself in his rivals' cross hairs, and that's exactly what happened during last Saturday's Iowa debate, when nine of the 14 candidate-on-candidate swipes were directed at Steve Forbes. But now that he has won the battle to be taken seriously, will Forbes display the killer instinct required to finish...
Fallows is particularly brutal about the corrupting effect of journalists' taking huge fees (which they seek to keep secret) for speaking to corporate and special-interest groups, something most politicians are rightly barred from doing. Cokie Roberts of ABC and her husband Steve of U.S. News & World Report are politely zapped as exemplars of this buckraking game. But they are not the best examples of what is most insidious about the process. Far worse are those journalists whose eagerness to get such lucrative gigs causes them to scramble to get on the type of TV shoutfests that prize glib, contentious...
...very different new debate." Kemp challenged Clinton to appoint a bipartisan, blue ribbon commission to draft the sepcifics. But while well-intentioned, Kemp's commission is rooted in politics, notes TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "The flat tax is the hottest new issue on the campaign trail and has launched Steve Forbes into second place," he says. Since Jack Kemp is a longtime flat tax advocate, it seems odd that his commission didn't provide a detailed recommendation. But the commission, Birnbaum notes, "was packed with Dole supporters, and Bob Dole has been concerned about criticisms the flat tax would increase...