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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...putting together a blue-ribbon commission by the first of the year to provide the cover for the obvious solution that no one else will propose: the Republicans want to save $158 billion over the next six years; the White House $116 billion; the two sides are $42 billion apart. All the commission needs to know is how to divide by two. "It's real easy," says a Republican strategist. "They do a report by March that gives both sides cover to come off their numbers...
Dole's resignation was not evidence of a strategy. it was the strategy itself. Apart from taking off his tie and giving the best speech of his life, Dole had no plan. The candidate kept the campaign manager off balance, and the campaign manager did the same to everyone else. Reed wouldn't let anyone get closer to Dole than he was, yet made little out of whatever closeness he did forge with the candidate...
...moderator of a recent debate between Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone and Rudy Boschwitz, the Republican he upset six years ago, said she needed "a whip and a chair" to keep the pair apart as they argued over federal farm policy. Indeed, the two staged a ferocious fight for the Minnesota Senate seat. In the end, former political science professor Wellstone proved that his '90 election was no fluke, and also that there is a place in the Senate for an old-fashioned liberal. He was the only incumbent Senator up for re-election who voted against the welfare-reform bill...
...campus today. Even the forces that hold legitimate grudges against the institutionalized armed forces (those fighting for the inclusion of homosexuals, for example) do not herald the military when they criticize it. Just as Harvard's ROTC program is housed away from the Yard at MIT, the military seems apart from the culture here and from the culture of our generation generally...
...candidates are both Erie natives born in 1956--just 10 days apart. Beyond that, DiNicola has tried to be as different from Phil English as possible, portraying him as a Gingrich clone who supports extreme budget cuts at the expense of environmental protection, student loans and Medicare. DiNicola promises to be a compassionate lawmaker who will limit government but not at the expense of children, the elderly and the disabled. In a district that elected English with a margin of 4,643 votes, Democrats sense an opportunity in this election...