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After months of arduous public evaluation and tense City Council meetings, the City Council voted six to three in March to extend Healy's five-year contract, which expires in June, for an additional two years...
...psychology of political ascendance turns out to be complicated as well. Liberals these days are called upon to perform the novel, and surprisingly arduous, exercise of hoping for a President to succeed. Some aren't up to it. American liberals have basically been in opposition mode since around 1966, halfway through L.B.J.'s second term (except perhaps for a week or two in 1977 at the beginning of the Carter Administration). For most, that period covers their entire politically aware lives. Many are too young to have experienced firsthand the euphoria of J.F.K.'s Camelot...
After months of arduous public evaluation and tense city council meetings. City Manager Robert W. Healy can breathe a sigh of relief...
...road to Berkery's second national championship will be long and arduous--but is it ever anything else? NCAA Preseason Poll 1. Maryland (9) 149 2. HARVARD (1) 136 3. Virginia 128 4. Princeton 107 5. Penn State 105 6. Loyola (Md.) 94 7. William and Mary 87 8. Dartmouth 75 9. Lafayette 65 9. Temple 65 11. New Hampshire 35 12. James Madison 30 13. Yale 22 14. Brown 21 15. Cornell 20 Compiled by Lacrosse Magazine, with first-place votes in parentheses and total points, Ivy League teams are in boldface type...
...about the time Hillary and he were on the road, Chelsea had the chicken pox and the baby- sitter failed to show. He might also mention that the lack of reliable, affordable child care is the single biggest obstacle to getting poor women off welfare and into jobs. The arduous search for a woman Attorney General, he would then admit, has only underscored the nation's child-care woes, which affect the privileged as well as the poor. Then an announcement: in an attempt to address the problem, the President would order a major re-evaluation...