Word: washingtonization
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...recognizable presidential type. Think Harry S Truman or Ulysses S. Grant. No one can say whether George W. Bush will join their ranks, but it is possible to trace how he changed his life and made such a thing possible. The answers are in West Texas in 1986, Washington in 1988 and Dallas...
Within a few months of his encounter with Dickey, Bush quit drinking. Soon after, he sold his ailing company for a miraculous profit and moved his family to Washington, where he worked on his father's 1988 presidential campaign and, he has said, "earned his spurs" in the old man's eyes. He helped put together the group that bought the Texas Rangers baseball team and plotted a run for Governor. It was as if someone had thrown a cosmic switch and his future came into focus. "Let's face it, George was not real happy [in Midland]," says oilman...
...states have limited halfway-housing programs for relatively healthy elderly ex-cons, but they can accommodate just a fraction of those in need. "We are constantly faced with low-risk, high-cost prisoners who should be moved into some kind of supervised release," says Jonathan Turley, founder of George Washington University's Project for Older Prisoners, known as POPS. "But there is no infrastructure in most states to accept large numbers of released older prisoners...
Last week the action in Hollywood stopped again, but this time it may not resume so breezily. It has been nearly two months since the shootings at Columbine High, and much of the political maneuvering in the weeks following focused on guns. But now Washington has unleashed a set of proposals designed to prevent kids from watching their favorite stars threatened with grisly deaths. Many politicians are hoping that by reining in violent imagery, they can prevent future Columbines--or at least convince constituents that they are trying to. Americans seem receptive: 64% of the respondents in a TIME/CNN poll...
President Clinton used Washington's most recognizable set, the White House, to announce that most cinema owners had agreed to require young people to show photo IDs when they ask for tickets to R-rated movies (an R rating means those under 17 must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian). The agreement with the National Association of Theatre Owners is voluntary--as is the ratings system itself--but others want stricter regulations...