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...satellite system provides Lowell House residents with such cable television staples as CNN, C-span, and ESPN...
...APPEALING THING ABOUT CHANNEL SURFING IS THAT anyone can become a satirist with the mere flick of a wrist. For instance, last Thursday morning you could have watched President Clinton, live on cnn from the White House, as he flattered the assembled heads of the American television industry for recognizing that "their creativity and their freedom carries with it [sic] significant responsibility." What with V chips and elections looming, politicians and moguls were all doing their best to appear high-minded. But--in New York City, at any rate--you could have quickly subverted the mood by flipping over...
MICHAEL KINSLEY, who for years played terrier to Pat Buchanan's pit bull on CNN's Crossfire, examines the Buchanan presidential run in this week's Essay. "It's weird to find myself punditizing about Pat instead of against him," Kinsley says. "During our Crossfire years I watched Buchanan's views on some subjects--foreign policy and free trade, especially--change dramatically. But one thing about Pat is that he holds his opinions with total conviction and intensity, even if they're the opposite of the views he held with similar intensity and conviction the day before." Kinsley recently exiled...
...Systematic inculcation of popular hatred for "government," for "bureaucrats," for "Washington," for "Congress,'' for "elites" was an overt--and brilliantly successful--part of Speaker Newt Gingrich's Long March strategy for taking over the House. More generally, it became a reflexive part of the Republican political language. Sitting on cnn's Crossfire for six years, most of them opposite Pat Buchanan, I heard this stuff night after night, and not just from Pat. No Republican ever interrupted another Republican's diatribe against the institutions of government with the warning, "Let's not be anti-institutional here...
...eliminate that possibility. TIME's Michael Duffy reports from Washington that Kemp's announcement, coming a day after Dole swept all eight Junior Tuesday primaries, has pundits shaking their heads. Says Duffy: "Jack Kemp's extreme sense of bad timing lives on." In an interview with CNN, Kemp said he was prompted into the fray after the Dole campaign began attacking Forbes' economic proposals, which Kemp said were very close to Dole's own.Congress Passes Helms-Burton