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Working with the Cambridge branch of theNational Association for the Advancement ofColored People and the Neighborhood Coalition, theTenants Council is planning a voter-registrationdrive for the fall city elections, and hopes toeducate public-housing residents about thestructure of city government...
First, Clinton should begin by changing his attitude toward the role of the President in the dynamic American government. He will have to realize that he can no longer run the executive branch with the "We shall overcome" attitude of the Great Society era. We are living at the threshold of a new century that demands real and practical answers, not hypothetical, dream-like ones. Clinton should be at the forefront, taking the initiative, advocating pragmatic solutions such as "enablement," not "entitlement," in social programs, among others. Here, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 could serve as his guiding principle when...
...differences with opposition leaders like Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole, Clinton must ensure that they respect his Constitutional powers as the President. Thus under no circumstances should he forfeit his powers to initiate policy, neither should he delegate them. The final policy decisions must always come from the executive branch...
From a fiscal perspective, the billions of dollars the Central Intelligence Agency absorbs every year could certainly go to better ends. Even left with only the military intelligence branch, the U.S. would still be able to out-spy any foreign powers. But the Republican Congress, with its usual does of paranoiac xenophobia, has not considered cuts to the Central Intelligence Agency as seriously as the Democrats had only a year ago. Hopefully, the Republicans will not engage in the deleterious escalation that the Russians have stealthily begun...
...moving from our adolescence to our adulthood,'' says Fournier, whose organization has five branch offices and 500 affiliated lawyers who do volunteer work around the country. "We want to institutionalize our work so we'll be here in 50 years.'' Increasingly too, the Christian-law groups are beginning to act in concert, most notably on a religion amendment to the Constitution, which they plan to unveil this month. Representative Ernest Jim Ishtook, a Republican from Oklahoma who will sponsor it in the House, expects the measure to have broad support. "Too many people have tried to create a new standard...