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Bradley also writes that Hanna H. Gray, former president of the University of Chicago and one of seven fellows on Harvard’s highest governing board, is an ardent opponent of affirmative action...
...However, your article in TIME, Aug. 29, SPORT, headed "Bowling on the Green" will certainly cause many ardent admirers of the game of Bowling or Ten-Pins to express their resentment pretty forcibly. I refer of course to the words in that article "bowling or ten-pins played now in indoor alleys by bar-flies and roustabouts." This really is pretty bad because it implies that the game is only played by bar-flies and roustabouts which is of course an absurdity. For example, the International Bowling League will hold its annual tournament in this city next winter and there...
...have never been George W. Bush’s biggest supporter, but unlike many of his more ardent detractors, I find there to be a few redeemable qualities in the man, many of which were on display in his inauguration speech. First and foremost of these is his willingness to lead America to embrace massive tasks that he sees as morally worthwhile. In an era characterized primarily by pervasive self-absorption and general disillusionment, Bush resonates with so many people because he stands, or claims to stand, for a larger moral vision and is willing to take on the burden...
...most ardent Republican supporters of private savings accounts say that Bush, having decided to take the plunge, should go all the way. He's expected to propose allowing workers to put one-third of the 6.2% payroll tax that is deducted from their paychecks into individual accounts. But advocates like Gingrich and antitax activist Grover Norquist want to know, Why not more? "It's going to take exactly the same amount of energy," Gingrich says. "You are better off trying to get the largest possible account." However big the plan, Bush recognizes that the politics inside his party are daunting...
...television ads and moving around the country in the big blue bird." But Bush had no interest in a classic corporate Republican operation that had a lot of money and not much passion. The Democrats are supposed to be the party with the deep grass roots and the ardent volunteers, but in 2000 Bush had managed to draft an army that saw itself as a band of outsiders storming the gates. "It gave people a lot of energy and enthusiasm," he said. "We can't lose that. I want to leave it so that some number of years from...