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Representatives from more than 50 high schools nationwide and about 40 Harvard undergraduates are participating in the event, which simulates various Senate and House committees. The Harvard students are staffing the various committees as chairmen and mediators...
Harvard Professor of Legal Medicine William S. Curran, who is one of four conference chairmen, will deliver a speech about the legal ramifications of the AIDS screening test...
Dobrynin has been in every classy parlor in Georgetown. He probably knows as many key Cabinet officers, committee chairmen, bankers, industrialists, journalists and other assorted U.S. power brokers as anyone in the city. Dobrynin has soared across the nation in the private jets of capitalists, put down a buck or two at the Kentucky Derby, poked around the Alaskan pipeline, biked in blue jeans with his granddaughter, and assaulted a Big Mac with a gusto rivaling that of the Chicago Bears' William ("the Refrigerator") Perry...
Because of the Faculty Council's decision to wait until next year to finish its CRR review, Cabot, Dudley, and Quincy House committee chairmen said they would reintroduce the question of how to respond to the university's invitation into the house committees. What the other houses will do in the wake of the Faculty Council's recent decision remains unclear...
...Congressmen became more independent of committee chairmen and party chieftains, they have tended to listen more to the folks back home. Predictably, however, lobbyists have skillfully found ways to manipulate so- called grass-roots support. Direct-mail outfits, armed with computer banks that are stocked with targeting groups, can create "instant constituencies" for special-interest bills. To repeal a 1982 provision requiring tax withholding on dividends and interest, the small banks and thrifts hired a mass-mailing firm to launch a letter-writing campaign that flooded congressional offices with some 22 million pieces of mail. The bankers' scare tactics were...