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...worried about a potential leadership vacuum in the black arts community in the future, according to the OFA, so he requested the office's help in continuing the effort to support black arts on campus...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: OFA Will Hire Student Intern to Assist Black Arts Program | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

...though Buchanan and Fulani's far-out philosophies are filling a particular vacuum ? Ventura has lit a clear way ahead. He has got Minnesota's Democrats and Republicans talking, and its legislature functioning. Despite the chuckles, Ventura has not disgraced himself, and he has lent his party what must be considered a legitimate ? and respectable ? intellectual identity. He is for a small government that loves tough, and that ordinary folk get to participate in ? namely, for campaign finance reform. He is for fiscal conservatism (a balanced budget and low taxes) and social libertarianism. He has based a so-far-successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Reform Party Shouldn't Confuse Reform with Radicalism | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

...column coming out of the dashboard, ending with a small steering wheel that turned with no resistance, as seamlessly as a radio dial; and on the left, a more delicate lever--pull in for brake, push out for gas. With each effortless motion came a whooshing sound as the vacuum pump he'd devised moved the brake or accelerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Craftsman of the Road | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...Nature abhors a vacuum, Washington abhors extra money. It must be disposed of, somehow, and soon enough to get re-elected with. (And in a ten-year block, no less) If we get lucky, the current standoff will harden into a stalemate, and at least this year?s surplus will go where it belongs -? into the bank. If not, then I guess I?ll settle for the compromise favored by a handful of moderates (A tip: for some of the best fiscal policy out there, look for the Republicans who break ranks with their party): $500 billion in tax cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I could use the money. So could you. Why a big tax cut still isn't such a great idea | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...only be the Serbs and Gypsies who are being terrorized in NATO-controlled Kosovo: The New York Times reported Thursday that the Kosovo Liberation Army has stepped into the power vacuum and unilaterally claimed all political power for itself, despite the fact that the U.N. is mandated to run the province until elections are held. The Times, citing NATO sources, says that the KLA is continuing to stockpile weapons and reports that the organization is taxing the population as well as confiscating property, under threat of violence, from both Serbs and ethnic Albanians. Commenting on the KLA?s monopolization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albright Visits as Trouble Brews in Kosovo | 7/29/1999 | See Source »

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