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Clinton and his new team--a competent, bland bunch of centrists--don't want to stake the success of the second term on perilous negotiations with Congress. The lesson of the still unfolding Gingrich scandal, White House aides say, is how much control members of the G.O.P. leadership still exert over the rank and file. In an intensely partisan atmosphere, collecting votes from G.O.P. moderates is going to be tough for Clinton. So he is choosing to forge ahead with the strategy that worked so well for him last year. Its essence: avoid grand legislative schemes and bypass Congress altogether...
...When we fence at Yale, they have this balcony where a bunch of people can watch what's going on, but at the MAC there's just not much room for anyone to watch," Scheffler says...
...Princeton, when we play there, it's like a zoo. There are kegs in the balcony, a bunch of alumni come back, it's like a football game. We really wish we could get the kind of turnout that they do," says women's captain Ivy C. Pochoda...
...just got a postcard from a friend of mine on vacation in Tahiti. The picture in front is of a bunch of smiling, tanned people in bathing suits on a beautiful, sun-drenched beach. The note on the back is short. "Having a great time," she wrote. "Wish you could be here." As if I wasn't bitter enough, still shivering from having just run over to the Mather mail boxes through the cold of a January morning in Cambridge, she signed a short P.S. at the bottom: "Hope finals are going well." I walked back to my room...
Small schools, large schools, Ivy and non-Ivy, rural and urban; the group appeared to be a fairly accurate cross section of America. With some exceptions, we got along quite well, eating meals together and dancing in a tight bunch the night of the delegate dance...