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...month Riley will appoint both a captain of crime prevention and officers to oversee all sectors, or beats, on campus...
...popular votes, and "Anyone who can ever understand how this works gets to be President." Ross Perot, take note: "One of the strictest rules is that all dark horses running for President must be people." As for the President's constitutional powers, "the President has the power to appoint and disappoint the members of his cabinet." And the rest of us too. But we keep hoping. -->
Clinton could sign the real welfare bill as he has promised, could appoint a professional to ensure that we get universal health care, could make social policy changes the likes of which we have not seen since the times of Kennedy and Johnson. He must seize the minds and energies of Americans with a plan that doesn't merely patch holes...
...murders hardened Bennett's already tough attitudes toward crime and drugs, and changed his life in other ways. He was promoted to president of the humanities center, where his brash critiques of liberalism moved President Reagan to appoint him in 1981 to run the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington. The following year Bennett married Elayne Glover, a teacher with a strong social conscience whom he had met in North Carolina...
...successfully argued a ballot-stuffing case that nearly cheated Carter out of a state Senate seat. Kirbo went on to advise Carter in his gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, as well as on the running of the White House. Kirbo always preferred anonymity, declining Governor Carter's offer to appoint him to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat...