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...declaring a budget surplus and allocating it is preserving Social Security, the President accomplishes a policy coup: he does nothing while claiming to have ameliorated a major problem. Clinton will simply restore to its coffers the Same money that allowed him to proclaim a surplus. His mantra of "sav[ing] Social Security first" has widespread political appeal, says Paul Gigot of The Wall Street Journal, because "few Americans know how Social Security works...
Late Saturday night, hundreds of college students were awakened by phone calls informing them that a coup had occurred in the Dominican Republic...
...event, which took nearly a year to plan, drew students from colleges and universities around the world for simulations of various United Nations committees, which dealt with everything from crafting legislation to handling crises such as the Dominican coup...
...disagreement. The pastoral and the political came together in Cuba last week just the way the missionary of Christian faith and the apostle of communism had planned. But as the two pursued their own agendas, each had to be disappointed that the historic visit intended as a public relations coup was upstaged in the U.S. by the Clinton sex scandal...
...another Crimson coup, political editor Michael W. Hirschorn '86 called the victory of Gary Hart over Mondale in the 1984 New Hampshire primary...