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...they become more schooled in the art of give and take, conservative Christians have been willing to support more centrist candidates and positions. At its state convention two years ago, the California G.O.P. tore itself apart over whether to adopt a strict antiabortion plank. The conservatives won, but in the November election G.O.P. candidates were mowed down by the voters. This year, to avoid hobbling Governor Pete Wilson in his race against Democrat Kathleen Brown, Christians agreed to a softer abortion platform. Religious conservatives are looking for centrists to meet them halfway by supporting candidates like North and Quist, even...
...newspaperman knows what they were: Pemberton had run illegal slave ships out of New York harbor, with the connivance of Boss Tweed's ring, and had also profitably supplied Union troops during the Civil War with substandard goods -- "boots that fell apart, blankets that dissolved in rain, tents that tore at the grommets, and uniform cloth that bled...
When a friend of Cooper's tore down the message board, "it wasn't a politically motivated incident, it was just drunken stupidity," Cooper says. But she says Wasinger interpreted the act as politically motivated and went to the proctor to complain...
When police advanced on Low Library, pro-SDS students blocked their passage. Police cleared the way with blackjacks and night sticks, and tore off the doors to the president's office after students inside refused to open them...
...Kiper tore into Tobin for choosing Trev Alberts over Trent Dilfer in the NFL draft last Sunday...