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...search for historic analogies to the Perot phenomenon, Truman's name is often cited, sometimes by Perot himself. On the surface, the comparison makes sense. Both men were feisty bantams, unvarnished, blunt and unplagued by the shadows that afflict the excessively reflective. But there is, in fact, a fundamental difference: unlike the computocratic uncandidate, Harry Truman was an unabashed politician, one who relished all the trappings, from honest patronage to whistle-stop campaigning. A doggedly unsuccessful dirt farmer and failed haberdasher, he entered politics out of need for a job and rose from the county courthouse to the Senate clubhouse...
...Harvard president said problems similar to those at Yale afflict Stanford and Columbia Universities, and said public institutions in New York, California and Illinois are "in very, very considerable trouble." He said Midwestern liberal arts colleges are also being hurt by the dearth of resources...
Moreover, individual investment in the MAC would help alleviate the problems normally associated with public goods, such as Aristotle's famous "tragedy of the commons." Right now, the MAC suffers the same neglect and mistreatment that afflict public housing projects, local parks and other products of modern socialism...
...beginning," he quipped in an interview, "I was sort of irritated that no one bothered to look" for dirt. Of course he dealt with government agencies, Tsongas said, reciting a list of transactions known to anyone familiar with his legal career. Large liabilities still afflict his candidacy, but an ethics deficiency isn't one. Neither is meanness. Tsongas last Thursday followed Clinton and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey before the same audience in Nashua. Reporters badgered all three about Clinton's latest problem -- the charge that he ducked military service during the Vietnam War. Kerrey exploited the opportunity to compound Clinton...
...with the best of intentions, can backfire. The Orphan Drug Act, for instance, was passed in 1983 to encourage the development of drugs for rare diseases. The law provides an extra economic incentive, in the form of a seven-year monopoly, to companies that market products for maladies that afflict fewer than 200,000 people. Though it has done some good, it has also been widely blamed for the outrageous prices of certain medications, including aerosolized pentamidine for AIDS patients, and for allowing some companies to make a killing when an "orphan drug" has turned out to be useful...