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...radically different leaders. Two calls for political secession. And a glimpse, possibly, of the 21st century's antipolitical response to the lessons of the end of the 20th...
...Republicans soon discovered the same thing. In 1994 they won the most stunning congressional victory of the late 20th century. And where they tried to roll back government, they had some success--they cut back welfare and agricultural subsidies and abolished the national speed limit. But where they tried to wield government power--to remoralize a culture they believed was degenerating before their eyes--they hit a wall. Under G.O.P. congressional control, government sanctions against abortion and homosexuality have, if anything, grown weaker. And when the G.O.P. tried to rally the public against a President they believed epitomized all that...
...television. Their charitable foundations, growing enormously, are taking government's place as the national laboratory for public projects and social innovation. Never mind the Microsoft antitrust suit. The literally murderous personal rage against rich people that was so much a feature of American life at the outset of the 20th century is today almost nowhere to be found...
Harvard (15-4-3, 12-4-3 ECAC) downed No.8 Northeastern (16-7-3, 10-5-3) 4-3 at 2:18 in overtime on Botterill's 20th goal of the season, with assists from junior winger Tammy Shewchuk and freshman winger Kalen Ingram...
They were more than a little surprised when they discovered that John Blum, their new member, was Episcopalian. It was not until the second half of the 20th century that the Corporation actually included a Jewish Fellow--former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Henry Rosovsky...