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...Vote campaign, and for the idea of activist voter registration in general. They bother me in much the same way it bother me when playoff ticket land in the laps of casual fans. I have no real grounds to be annoyed, but still, there's an undeniable elitist suspicion that if people don't have to work hard for precious things, they won't appreciate what they're getting...
...important damage from the polymorphous con jobs on political display this year is symbolic and atmospheric. Morris' train wreck last week, compounded by his ideological promiscuity, adds to the widespread public suspicion that it takes an unwholesome personality--a professional liar or a power fetishist--to go into politics in the first place.The conventional rules of hypocrisy have been modernized by the principles of television--life as a continuously temporary hallucination. Just as an image on the screen five minutes ago is only a memory on the retina and has no necessary connection to the image on the screen right...
Although Clinton won the 1992 election with only 43% of the vote, there were moments of popular enthusiasm--such as that first postconvention bus tour--that are difficult to imagine this year. During Reagan's first four years, widespread suspicion melted into widespread affection. During Clinton's, something like the opposite has happened...
ATLANTA: Richard Jewell, the security guard under investigation for the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park, has passed a lie detector test but remains under FBI suspicion. The test was administered by Dick Rackleff, a former FBI agent now in private practice, who said in a press conference Tuesday that there was no doubt in his mind that Jewell had no knowledge about the bomb. "Jewell's attorneys are growing more and more smug and their rhetoric is getting stronger," says TIME's Greg Fulton. "The FBI continues to say that they are waiting for additional forensic results. But they have...
ATLANTA: Richard Jewell, the security guard under investigation for the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park, has passed a lie detector test but remains under FBI suspicion. The test was administered by Dick Rackleff, a former FBI agent now in private practice, who said in a press conference Tuesday that there was no doubt in his mind that Jewell had no knowledge about the bomb. "Jewell's attorneys are growing more and more smug and their rhetoric is getting stronger," says TIME's Greg Fulton. "The FBI continues to say that they are waiting for additional forensic results. But they have...