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...jokingly referred to President Neil L.Rudenstine's medical leave of absence this fall,remarking: "Welcome back Mr. President. We'rehonored that you think yourself a part of ourclass-- although I see you are absent today," shesaid...
...biblical injunction to do justice for the poor is so absent from the rhetoric of the religious right," Hansen says. "Very rarely will they volunteer the rhetoric of compassion to support their programs. Instead, they offer the rhetoric of a broken system...
...simply means that Harvard's Admissions Office will be deluged with growing numbers of Applications, the vast majority of them frivolous. The less obvious side-effect, though, is that Harvard is effectively lowering its standards for admission. The quest for diversity should not consist of recruiting those who, absent the Common Application, would view applying to Harvard as too much of a chore. If that is considered elitism, then by all means, Harvard should be elitist...
...deficits," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. "We will finally begin to speak for the future." The GOP package promises $958 billion in savings -- chiefly from Medicare, Medicaid and the elimination of 181 agencies and programs, from the Commerce Department to the Opera-Musical Theater Advisory Panel. Notably absent: $350 billion in tax cuts that more aggressive House Republicans approved last week. Still, Karen Tumulty, TIME congressional correspondent, says some tax breaks may surface after House and Senate negotiators have it out, in part because Dole has a warm spot for the idea, which would play well on the presidential...
...from New Jersey, said flatly, "Ralph Reed and the Christian Coalition will create a lot of trouble for the Republican Party." And, in fact, if Reed succeeds too well at moving the party in his direction, he stands to alienate the middle-of-the-roaders, whose votes, while notably absent in Republican primaries, tend to decide general elections...