Word: whitmanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three Republican governors have started the fight to make the GOP pro-choice, or at least netural. Govs. Christine Todd Whitman (R-N.J.), Pete Wilson (R-Cal.) and Massachusetts' own William F. Weld '66 have taken up the battle that Weld and Connecticut governor and former U.S. senator Lowell P. Weicker lost repeatedly. All three have aspirations to sit in big offices in the nation's capital, so consensus will eventually become very important to them. The question becomes whether the Republican Party will stand behind each or any of them...
...follow this, we need a two-semester class that moves to the modern period--something like a diluted English 10 combined with Government 1061. Doubtless, we'd have to include Dostoevsky, Balzac, Goethe and the Americans: Jefferson. Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and DuBois. Perhaps, selections from Smith and Freud...
Thanks as much to its persuasive craftsmanship as to its wrenching theme, Schindler's List has already touched U.S. audiences. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman has arranged screenings as an intended antidote to hate crimes. But no audiences could feel a higher emotional stake in the subject than those last week at premieres in Frankfurt and other German cities, in Tel Aviv and Krakow. Viewers wept. Afterward many could not eat or sleep or talk. Some had been afraid to see it. Others said it should be seen by everyone. Spielberg, less a promoter for his film than...
Despite the protest, Khallid Abdul Muhammad is to appear on a New Jersey campus again, at Trenton State College next week. Governor Christine Whitman will counter with free screenings for college students of the Holocaust film Schindler's List to show "in a very, very graphic way what happens if the kind of attitudes expressed at Kean College are left unchecked...
CHRISTINE WHITMAN...