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Referring to the long line of 102 Archbishops in Church history, the speaker said Harvard had been founded by churchgoers trying to escape the "harsh religious policies" enforced by early Archbishops. Therefore, though "I don't really belong here," he said, "I am somewhat connected...
...rhetoric may be overheated, but the stakes are indeed high. Of 34 Senate seats up for grabs, Republicans now hold 22. No fewer than 15 belong to members of the class of '80, many of them inexperienced politicians who won by slender margins. While most of their seats are fairly secure, a highly vulnerable half a dozen or so have been specially targeted by the Democrats. If the Democrats cannot reclaim a majority this year, with only twelve of their seats on the line, the Republicans will have an excellent chance to cement control in 1988, when fewer G.O.P. Senators...
...confiscated. Success in the New York cases, following an unprecedented series of indictments affecting 17 of the 24 Mafia families in the U.S., would hit the Mob where it would hurt most. Out of a formal, oath-taking national Mafia membership of some 1,700, at least half belong to the five New York clans, each of which is larger and more effective than those in any other city...
...Reagan presidency, the TIME survey found the proportion of Democrats to Republicans has continued to shrink. In 1980, fully 49% of those surveyed called themselves Democrats and only 28% Republicans. Today the numbers are 34% and 24%. While in 1980, 23% of the respondents said they did not belong to either party, today the figure has grown to 42%. But the historic realignment that some political observers predicted after the President's 1984 landslide re-election has not yet occurred. Instead, the U.S. is undergoing a process that might be called "dealignment." Only 19% of Americans say they are "loyal...
...know who he is and where he is going, then the oldest and richest U.S. institution of higher learning may still be doing as fine a job as ever. And, after all, Harvard can be indulged for writing its name against the sky, although it may no longer belong there alone...