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...opponents, but he became petulant when reporters examined his own conduct -- such as his penchant for investigating others and his decision to blow up a protected reef near his Bermuda home. By showing that he couldn't take the heat, Perot convinced most voters that he didn't belong in the kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons of Perot | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...privileges to teach each other how to cheat," she says. Her harsh analogy is not to income-tax advice but to outright theft. "It's easy for a lot of people to condemn youngsters who walk into stores that have been blasted open and take things that don't belong to them. Everyone calls that looting, and it's certainly illegal and not appropriate. But when people with $350,000 incomes shelter that by transferring assets to grandparents and reporting $41,700 and then qualify for $12,000 in aid, that's another form of looting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tuition Game | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...your book going over? Very well. People, I think, are sick and tired of the conventional wisdom and popular opinion and they're tired of the group thing--that they can predict what you're going to say about a subject by what organization you belong to or what school you went to. If there's one thing that I try very hard to do, it's to think through every position for myself. I'm very strongly pro-choice, but I think Roe v. Wade should be overruled. I'm also, although I'm a strong advocate of freedom...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Dersh & Me | 10/31/1992 | See Source »

Sander J. Grieve, opinions editor of the QueensJournal at Queens College in Ontario, sharedVivian's opinion. Although some college studentsdo belong to a reserve military corps, he said,the groups are not directly connected withuniversities...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Canadian Military Ends Ban on Gays | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...Harvard have no reason or right to resist the fact that just as there are better and worse schools, there are smarter and dumber kids, and the smarter ones belong in the better schools. Rather than a lottery system, President Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton should advocate a merit criterion to determine which students would make the best use of private-school educational opportunities...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Choose or Lose | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

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