OPRAH’S ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
There are some things even Oprah Winfrey's money can't buy. In September, 1994, Chicago's most famous woman announced in a heavily covered news conference than she was going to commit...
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THE DICK MORRIS STORY: AN AFFAIR TO NOT REMEMBER
How does Bill Clinton do it? Every time he is riding a wave of successes, something comes along to knock him off his surfboard. The latest flap has me particularly...
FARRAKHAN’S BUDDIES AND BLOOD MONEY
What do you call someone who you invite to your house as a guest only to see him trash the carpet and wet all over your walls? There are words...
CLEARING THE AIR
When you can't win the debate, shift the argument. That time-tested motto pretty well describes President Clinton's strategic response to reports that drug use among teens has surged upwards during...
CONTENTIOUS CONTENDERS
It was the most notable presidential birthday since Marilyn Monroe cooed a seductive "Happy birth-day, Mr. Pres-si-dent" to John F. Kennedy in 1962 in Madison Square Garden. Up the street...
WHY ALL THE RAIN ON THE GOP’S TELEVISED PARADE?
When ABC's Ted Koppel declared that there was no news at the Republican National Convention and went home, it immediately became the biggest news of the day, which showed that...
RIGHT ON TARGET?
After spending some of the best times of their lives in political Siberia, black Republicans are tickled over Bob Dole's choice of Jack Kemp to be his running mate. And...
SAVING HARDENED JUVENILE CRIMINALS
Atty. Gen. Janet Reno's announcement that violent juvenile crime has taken its first dip in a decade probably won't bring much comfort to the family of Viola McClain. The 82-year-old...
IS THE MEDIA OUT OF CONTROL?
Sometimes people will ask me why we journalists do things the way we do. It's a good question. Why do we do it that way? Such an incident occurred a...
FEARING THE BEST AND WORST OF WELFARE REFORM
So much for welfare as we knew it. Now, we wonder, what welfare will we know? Or, more to the point, what kind of poverty will we know? Few pieces...