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In 1993, for example, the Rev. Jesse Jackson praised the Nigerian despot of the moment, General Ibrahim Babangida, as "one of the great leader-servants of the modern world in our time." This was the same Babangida who had ruthlessly suppressed political opponents, closed down independent newspapers and allowed his...
For these zealots, modern American art is summed up in the image of Robert Mapplethorpe, that slick and vastly overrated photographer, conservative in every sense except the sexual, who is now seen as a hybrid of welfare queen and Caligula, living off the NEA on your tax dollar and mine...
Rejecting an attempt by North Carolina's Jesse Helms to curtail federal funding for AIDS treatment--an effort that Helms laced with fulminations over the "offensive and revolting conduct" of homosexuals--the Senate voted 97 to 3 to fully reauthorize such spending.
If the importance of a historical event can be measured by the noise that surrounds it, then the University of California's Board of Regents could be sure it was making history last week. During 12 hours of passionate, sometimes ferocious debate, the board met to consider whether to end...
"END IT, YOU CAN'T MEND IT" One of those Republicans did more than just talk. California Governor and presidential aspirant Pete Wilson used his position as head of the University of California board of regents to help steer a measure ending affirmative-action policies at the huge and prestigious...