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Upperclass players vouched for the strength of the freshman team. "It was a crushing loss for the Kirkland house team. We were strongly outcoached. The reckless abandon of the freshman play destroyed our system," commented a battered Kirkland Coach Gus Grant...
...Hart's freshness seems more than packaging. Many of his ideas have never been exposed on the national political stage. His emphasis on newness means, in many instances, that he will abandon liberal totems that have been outworn or misshapen. "The pragmatism of the New Deal has become doctrine," he says. "We have saddled ourselves with expedients...
Instead, Hart proposes using tax incentives to retrain workers and encourage industry to modernize. But unlike many, including Reagan, he does not want to abandon the traditional "smokestack" producers in the process. Hart is an early backer of Kennedy School lecturer Robert B. Reich's "industrial policy" to rejuvenate ailing industries using the government to negotiate compacts between management, labor, and the financial markets. Hart has also proposed a reform in entitlement programs to cut costs, and has advocated an active Federal Reserve Board to target interest rates to promote economic growth...
...anguished outcries in New York and California concern the same problem: penal systems that too often free prisoners who seem obvious threats to society. But the two cases also illustrate how difficult solutions are. The parole system many New Yorkers are so eager to abandon could end up being replaced by one like the penal approach that governed the Streleski and White cases. In eleven states, including California, parole release has been abolished for most offenders in favor of a fixed, or "determinate," sentencing system. Under it, a judge must impose punishment from a narrow range of options...
Those who say political polling generates a bandwagon effect claim the surveys cause voters and financial backers to follow the crowd and abandon unpopular candidates...