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...Austin hadn't come to discuss ways to improve education or reduce teen pregnancy. They were there to support a Bush campaign for President, and some were worried about his resolve. Recent news reports suggested the Governor might be having second thoughts about putting his wife Laura and their twin 17-year-old daughters through the media onslaught of a campaign. "We're ready to work for you," said one of the donors, "but we're hearing your wife and daughters don't want...
...decisions, putting victims' needs first and trumpeting the rights of individuals over the state. "Like Harry Truman, Harry Blackmun really grew in office," notes TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders, who covered Blackmun during much of the Justice's career. "Early on he was viewed as second-rate, the Minnesota twin of Warren Burger," Sanders notes. "But over time he split with the Chief Justice, finding his own voice on the court." Indeed, ever an open mind, Blackmun reversed his support for capital punishment in 1994. "I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death," he wrote...
...left provided the paradigms that caused self-styled progressive and Marxist governments to kill 100 million of their own people, in peacetime, in order to realize their impossible dreams. I further said that while utopianism is primarily now latent in the ideologies of the left, its Siamese twin nihilism, with all its socially corrosive attributes, is not. It is these destructive paradigms and these impossible dreams that are indeed dangerous and that are still vibrant in the curriculum as taught on campuses like Harvard's. DAVID HOROWITZ...
...left provided the paradigms that caused self-styled progressive and Marxist governments to kill 100 million of their own people, in peactime, in order to realize their impossible dreams. I further said that while utopianism is primarily now latent in the ideologies of the left, its Siamese twin nihilism, with all its socially corrosive attributes, is not. It is these destructive paradigms and these impossible dreams that are indeed dangerous and that are stil vibrant in the curriculum as taught on campuses like Harvard...
...acclaimed How I Learned to Drive took a simple premise--a young woman recalls an uncle's sexual abuse--and gave it psychological complexity. This earlier work, making its off-Broadway debut, takes a complex premise--twin sisters embody women's changing roles from the 1950s through the '80s--but hammers it with obviousness. Swoosie Kurtz plays both the "good" sister Myrna, who goes from soda-fountain virgin to Republican matron, and the "bad" Myra, who becomes a radical terrorist. The play depends too heavily on easy pop-cultural cliches and the usual hit parade of nostalgic oldies. Forget...