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Despite the alphabetical breakdown of first-years, the line of those waiting stretched across the old Yard and past the front of Weld Hall...
...message from all these figures is that the breakdown of the American family has much to do with the rise in crime and the drop in educational and behavioral standards. All argue that the regeneration of society will depend on the ability of communities and families to reassert themselves...
...somewhat less effect. All week he phoned House members to remind them that there was "a lot of good stuff" in the crime bill. To make sure that lawmakers understood just how much of it was earmarked for their districts, Democratic congressional aides prepared a state-by-state breakdown of which places would be getting which dollars. For the Black Caucus members, Clinton promised to draft an Executive Order decrying racial disparities in the application of the death penalty in federal prosecutions. Attorney General Janet Reno also pledged to take steps to rectify such imbalances. None of this, however, applies...
...been comparatively ignored. For one thing, Nixon nostalgia was pretty much used up on his death last April. For another, the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency doesn't offer much in the way of warm memories. It represents a craven abuse of power, a breakdown of our system of government so appalling that most people would just as soon forget it. Indeed, judging by the Nixon eulogies, many of them have forgotten it. Significantly, it is not an American network but the British Broadcasting Corp. that has taken on the task of reminding us of the third...
...Yankelovich Partners, 50% agreed with the proposition that "nothing the U.S. could accomplish in Haiti is worth the death of even one U.S. soldier," vs. 39% who disagreed. But when respondents were asked whether they approved of "sending U.S. troops to Haiti along with troops from other countries," the breakdown was almost the exact opposite: 51% in favor, 39% opposed. Unilateral intervention, on the other hand, drew only 17% support, with 75% against the idea...