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Neither that record nor that rhetoric would seem to make him the natural standard bearer for the G.O.P. warriors who rode into Washington last fall promising to wipe out the very practices that Dole has spent the past 34 years mastering inside the Beltway. "There are so many now who grew up fighting a bully government," says Georgia Senator Paul Coverdell, who, though 56, is part of the newer generation in Congress because he was elected in 1992. "We had to overcome it." By contrast, Coverdell notes, Dole came of age when "government was seen more as a facilitator...
...Conservative leadership contest that Major himself had boldly scheduled for July 4. Redwood's move ended the appearance of Cabinet unity that Major's supporters had hoped would ensure him victory. The fight now centers on rightist opposition to Britain's economic intergration with Europe. Redwood, a standard-bearer for the Euro-skeptics, read his blunt resignation letter to Major in public: "There is no shortage of people wanting to stand or to support someone other than you." Major, at a European Economic summit in Cannes, fired back: "I am certainly intrigued about it, since...
...make matters worse, The Crimson is often the bearer of bad news. The Harvard football, baseball and men's basketball teams are at best pathetic and the men's ice hockey team has disappointed in the last few years. As a result, The Crimson is stuck with a message no one wants to hear and in fact one which many people don't want to be heard...
Bragg says he enjoyed Trinity, despiteoccasionally feeling like teachers asked him to bethe "flag-bearer" for his race in a discussion.Denise Philpotts, the school's coordinator ofmulticultural affairs, says she noticed Bragg'sself-confidence even in his overwhelmingly whiteelementary school classes...
...gunmen ended the carnage around 3 p.m., then sauntered out of town, taking along 13 hostages, including a group of women wearing uniforms from Gerry's department store. Left behind were 53 dead, 44 wounded and a white flag with the name of Abu Sayyaf (Bearer of the Sword), a Muslim separatist group known to have ties to terrorists...