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...domestic front, the attacks should be even stronger. The Democrats should relentlessly trumpet Bush's idiotic "no new taxes" pledge all across the airwaves. If the jobless rate continues to climb, they should focus on issues of prosperity and the increasingly uneven income distribution of the 1980s. The Democrats must avoid calling for massive increases in social spending and affirmative action programs, but popular Republican attacks on the tax-and-spenders can be answered with attacks on Republican "borrow-and-spend" economic policy...
...Arthur Sullivan's spirited score, but The Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HGSP) prove that boredom is indeed possible in Constantine Arvanitakis' mediocre production of Trial By Jury and The Sorcerer. After close to three hours of staccato notes, operatic singing and overacting the audience is more inclined to climb the walls than to applaud...
Perhaps tuition will continue to climb in order to keep up with the increased need for funds. So be it. Those who can pay will pay. Those who can't pay will get help. Financial aid will continue to have its redistributing effects...
...months ago, Glance was shopping in a neighborhood grocery store when she learned that its owner was about to retire. Something fell into place. She looked around the old-fashioned shop, where clerks still climb ladders to retrieve goods from the upper shelves, and she decided on the spot to buy the place. The new proprietor of the Crocus Hill market may never come anywhere near to matching her old $100,000-plus yearly income, but she couldn't care less. Says Glance: "It really comes down to saying, 'Slow down. The value of life might not be in making...
Duffy gives credit for at least part of his rapid political climb to Gov. William F. Weld '66 whose administration has been described as one of the most strongly supportive of the gay-rights movement in the nation...