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...David Boren, whose warnings over his stimulus package he had blithely ignored two months ago, dooming it to defeat. Breaux has now become the President's ally in getting his economic plan through the Senate Finance Committee, where Democrats hold only 11 out of 20 seats. Just as liberals bemoan Clinton's new tack, the Louisiana Senator applauds it. At home last week, as he rode along in his white van toward a forum at H.L. Bourgeois High School in Gray, Louisiana, an electric razor in one hand and a phone in the other, Breaux declared his conviction that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is 'My Center'? | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...case, I (and some of my Canadian and European counterparts) can't help bemoan the relatively shallow level of political discourse here. In America, words of sacrifice still sound pagan, or at least like some foreign religious tradition. This discrepancy in American and Canadian politics is particularly apparent in the discussion of health care...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: The Soft Scourge of Sacrifice | 3/5/1993 | See Source »

Students crowded around television screens last night in bars, dorm rooms--wherever a TV could be found--to cheer on Bill Clinton or bemoan the demise of President Bush...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Watch Clinton Win | 11/4/1992 | See Source »

Gemino said that many of The Crimson Shop'sloyal patrons have written letters to bemoan thestore's closing. "It's been somewhat rewarding tofind out how sad people are to hear we'reclosing," he said...

Author: By Jerome J. Chou, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Crimson Shop to Shut Down | 10/20/1992 | See Source »

There is some emotion here despite the characters' failure to evoke empathy, but it is mostly a byproduct of gore and disfigured faces. For instance, when one boxer emerges comatose from a knockout, the audience cannot help but bemoan the unfairness of the underground, inner-city boxing circuits. One hopes that such barbarity is purely fictitious...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Nothing but a Rocky Wanna-be | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

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