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...GREAT UNWASHED HAVE BECOME cynical and disillusioned about representative democracy. Politicos promise us anything, only to toe the party line and defer to the bureaucracy once elected. Until we personally feel we have some real input into the political system, we will remain as cynical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1995 | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...great unwashed have become cynical and disillusioned about representative democracy. Politicos promise us anything, only to toe the party line and defer to the bureaucracy once elected. Until we personally feel we have some real input into the political system, we will remain as cynical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WIRED DEMOCRACY | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...matter of abortion means subjecting one's self to public attack by those in the club whose minds cannot conceive of pro-choice conservatives. Through underhanded tactics, the current leaders of the Republican Club have managed to marginalize, exclude and ostracize those members of the club who do not toe their line on every single issue. They have even gone so far as to exclude dozens of members and an officer of the executive board from club meetings and functions...

Author: By William D. Zerhouni, | Title: Fighting the Forces of Fascism | 2/8/1995 | See Source »

Keeping her hands a few inches away from her seated patient, nurse Janet Quinn moves them around his body from head to toe, as if she were brushing away cobwebs. At the end of each sweeping motion, her eyes closed, she makes a dismissive gesture, as if shaking water off from her fingertips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A No-Touch Therapy | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...veteran Republicans who they hope will be swing voters to create the alliances the President needs. Last year they voted with Clinton on gun control and the North American Free Trade Agreement. But Clinton aides admit that these G.O.P. Representatives will be under intense pressure from their leaders to toe the line. In the Senate, Republican moderates are stepping down or struggling to win, while much more conservative Republicans such as Ohio's Michael DeWine and Missouri's John Ashcroft are expected to cruise to victory. The result may be that just as Clinton moves to the middle, he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alone in the Middle | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

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