During the Democratic primaries, I wrote a column for CNN.com about how easy it is for any candidate to tar and feather another about their associations with less-than-acceptable figures.
Death has a way of sanitizing the most virulent and despicable aspects of prominent lives, especially those who trafficked in racial bigotry.
Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican who became an icon to conservatives, died Friday at age 86, the Jesse Helms Center said.
Jesse Helms dies
updated: Fri Jul 04 2008 20:29:00
Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina has died at age 86. A look back at his life.
The former senator, dead at 86, was a voice of conservative dissent, but his campaigning skills were formidable
Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) -- The artist formerly known as the man who scrawled "slave" on his face during a '90s dispute with his record company is happy with his new Universal Records deal.
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Gerrymandering is in the news these days, and you will doubtless find many an opportunity to work into dinner-party conversation the fact that the term was creatively named for Elbridge Gerry, who ...
| Behind-the-scenes winners in this fall's election: the media consultants. Increasingly considered political necessities, such imagemakers typically work by exhaustively interviewing a candidate, ...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Businessmen and the National Taxpayers Union all have given Senator Jesse Helms excellent ratings. But MONEY doesn't agree? How ...
The arguments swirling about the National Endowment for the Arts seem curiously incomplete. They feature cultural conservatives like Jesse Helms, in a rage about certain now-famous grants for obsce...
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More than any of its predecessors, the Surgeon General's latest report on smoking is a treasure trove of nicotinic esoterica. Flipping randomly through the pages, one learns, for example, that the ...
In which we inaugurate the first annual or possibly quinquennial (let's see & how it goes) Keeping Up Awards to point up the phenomenon of predictably high- minded behavior among people who ought t...
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms just won't shut up, even though his , harangues on foreign policy have often embarrassed U.S. diplomats and businessmen abroad, not to mention his fellow Republic...
JESSE HELMS has been a vituperative warrior of the Republican party's right wing since he arrived in the Senate in 1973. Though it doesn't love them, Congress tolerates ideologues -- they ensure th...
Fortune: HAVING IT ALLupdated: Mon Feb 17 1986 00:01:00
A young lobbying firm advises big corporate clients and top presidential hopefuls, too. INFLUENCE is the political currency of Washington, and the hottest marketer of connections to the powerful is...
Fortune: Media buysupdated: Mon Apr 15 1985 00:01:00
In the past few months, Wall Street analysts have been eyeing communications companies generally, and television networks in particular, as attractive takeover targets. In many cases stock prices u...
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