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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...getting really sententious about stupidity. And Harvard, thankfully, is the ideal setting to let your mind and vocal cords wander into the postmodern recesses of the human condition, before you get out of here and have to deal with things like does the toaster work and paying the insurance bill and taking the car to the Jiffy Lube...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Remedy for the Harvard Sickness | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

...very versatile player," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary says. "He kills penalties, has played on the power play, takes the regular shift. Tod always puts in a solid performance...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Harvard Hockey's Utility Man | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

Since only a few hard-core ideologues still believe that lowering marginal tax rates produces an actual increase in revenues, Lindsey had to content himself by telling the gathered students that lowering the top marginal rates makes the rich pay a larger share of the nation's total tax bill...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Larry Lindsey Rides Again | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

...Republicans cared about designing effective public policy, they would have selected Madigan, who was instrumental in the drafting of the massive 1985 Farm Bill. Gingrich, in contrast, could be the most incompetent legislator in Congress. Of the 26 pieces of legislation he has sponsored during his House tenure, only two have become law. Both of these were resolutions which had no practical effect...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The GOP's Changing Guard | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

Gingrich has unsuccessfully sponsored such ridiculous legislation as a bill to abolish the Social Security System. He also proposed establishing a system of government in outer space...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The GOP's Changing Guard | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

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