NEWS
September 10, 1995
Get ready for the mother of all train wrecks. Washington is fascinated by speculation that the Clinton administration and the Republican-controlled Congress are on a collision course that could shut down the government and even lead to economy-damaging defaults on the national debt.Paul Tsongas likens the situation to the big league baseball strike, with "true blood lust" prevailing over the true interests of the contending factions -- and, of course, the country as a whole. He warns that a real fiasco could confirm popular distrust of the present political system and bolster third-party sentiment throughout the land.
NEWS
May 17, 1994
FROM Murray Kempton's assessment of Richard Nixon, which appeared recently in the New York Review of Books:"No politician can look to change any country but his own. And that Nixon profoundly did."Television commenced to press its now unbounded command over our politics in the 1952 presidential campaign. Variety kept an eye on this experimental stage of revolution and found just two examples of the technique that deserves professional attention. They were both Nixon broadcasts, one immortalizing his cocker spaniel, the other excavating the Hiss case.
NEWS
By Steve Chapman | November 12, 2002
CHICAGO -- When Republicans shocked the country by winning a majority in both houses of Congress in 1994, you could almost hear the tune that British troops reputedly played after their surrender at Yorktown: "The World Turned Upside Down." The GOP had a mandate for Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America," which called for a balanced budget, term limits and tax cuts. The Republicans talked about abolishing Cabinet departments. They proposed constitutional amendments. The takeover was dubbed the "Republican revolution," because dramatic change was plainly on the way. This year, they have upended expectations once again, giving them an even stronger position in Washington than eight years ago. They recaptured the Senate, they increased their majority in the House in defiance of historical odds -- and this time, they have an incumbent president whose claim to govern is now firmer than when he came into office as the runner-up in the 2000 popular vote.
NEWS
January 17, 1995
IT HAPPENED in 1968, although we were not aware of it then. Coincident with the death of its two great crusading leaders -- King and Kennedy -- the most destructive conflict since the Civil War, and the election of Richard Nixon, American liberalism had suffered a fatal blow. It was to linger, brain-dead, for a quarter of a century until the reality of death was pronounced by the election of Newt Gingrich & Co. It was long overdue. The delusion of vitality, of imminent resurrection, had become a burden to the country and rendered impotent some of its most vigorous political men and women.
NEWS
By Karen Nitkin and Karen Nitkin,special to the sun | May 23, 2007
Stephen Robinson, who will be 2 next month, dashed for the giant inflatable monster truck as soon as his shoes were off. After four months of visits to AIRMania Fun Zone, he knew the play space well. His favorite, he indicated with a shy point of the finger, is the firetruck. AIRMania, which opened in late January on Red Branch Road in Columbia, is owned by Alan Harry, his son, Chris Harry, and a third partner, Ed Sharkey. It offers 6,000 square feet of carpeted space for kids like Stephen to play, and eight enormous inflatable devices for them to play on. Most of the inflatables are more than 20 feet tall and have features such as slides and basketball hoops inside them.
NEWS
By JAMES P. PINKERTON | June 21, 1995
New York. -- The old wisdom that the Supreme Court follows the election returns was validated again last week. In two civil-rights cases, one concerning government contracting and the other regarding school integration, the court scaled back race-conscious remedies. The 1994 electoral earthquake that put Newt Gingrich into the speakership and the Democrats into receivership continues to be felt.Much of the Republican establishment cheered the court's action. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, called it ''a major step toward ending quotas and set-asides in America.