Word: zimmerer
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...versions of it. At the top of the ticket are two politicians moving to the middle who will try to depict the Other Guy as a closet extremist. Such is the situation in many states, including New Jersey, where Democratic Representative Bob Torricelli is trying to tar Representative Dick Zimmer with the Gingrich brush while Zimmer is dismissing Torricelli as an unreconstructed liberal. In North Carolina there is an ideological contest generously seasoned with revenge: Harvey Gantt is once again facing off against Jesse Helms, reprising their liberal- vs.-conservative alley fight of six years ago. These days, in part...
...federal prisoners is now part of the House version of the Republican-sponsored anti-crime bill. If it survives into the final version of the bill--an iffy prospect--the amendment would forbid such things as premium cable channels and R- or X-rated movies. Its sponsor, Representative Dick Zimmer of New Jersey, is also pushing for a law that would reach the nation's 959,000 state prisoners by denying federal prison money to any state that did not ban such things as in-cell TVs and coffee makers, body-building equipment and any food better than that served...
...Zimmer admits he does not know how many prisons feature those perks. But he takes the "one prison that has them is one prison too many" point of view. Advocates of prisoners rights, a beleaguered group these days, insist that few lock-up facilities offer much that could be mistaken for the good life. "All prisons are very unpleasant places,'' says Mike Mahoney, executive director of the John Howard Association, a Chicago-based prison watchdog group. They also argue that some of the cost-cutting expectations are based on a misunderstanding about who pays for some inmate comforts. According...
...Robert Torricelli, a feisty, partisan Democrat, is the strongest Democratic contender likely to run for Bradley's seat. Among the elephants, it's Rep. Dick Zimmer, a three-term fiscal conservative/pro-choicer...
...conjunction with Reva Shayne Lewis' (Kim Zimmer) recent resurrection from the dead on Guiding Light, the soap is selling Reva: The Scarlet Years. ABC is pushing Daytime's Greatest Weddings, a three-part collection featuring memorable nuptials from three of the network's soaps: All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital. "We knew people wanted to see Luke and Laura's wedding again," says abc Daytime president Pat Fili-Krushel of the 1981 G.H. episode that garnered through-the-roof ratings. "People remember where they were and what they were doing when these events happened." Finally, there...