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Fresh out of Augustana College, the small, determined 20-year-old felt a bit nervous when she first arrived at the Kennedy School of Government two years ago. The first chapters of "The Education of Lori A. Forman," had been set in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and she was intimidated by the prospect of moving to Harvard...
...take on the Boylston St. big-wigs won her a Truman scholarship, and allowed her to lead the Augustana student government and newspaper, serve on 27 different committees, and earn "pretty good grades." This same driving force propelled her to the position of key aid to the South Dakota speaker of the house by the beginning of her senior year in college. And this year, while several of her classmates were still looking for employment. Forman's political savvy and experience won her a job with the Washington branch of Decision Making Inc., a research firm headed by Richard Wirthlin...
Forman's big-city experiences have radically differed from her days in South Dakota, "where the big difference between people is whether they belong to the American Lutheran Church or the Lutheran Church of America." But, in some ways she finds Harvard less advanced than Augustana. "Back home, people were thought of as people," she says. When she came here, for instance, she was surprised by the dearth of women and minorities in the classroom. "I was never really concious of being a 'woman' until I got here. I expected a lot from Harvard. I was amazed
Arizona and North Dakota have moved to raise their limits, but only if the federal maximum is raised or repealed. And, in fact, Republican S.I. Hayakawa recently introduced a repeal bill in the U.S. Senate. Yet the Reagan Administration does not intend to press the issue, even though last year's Republican Party platform included a call for removal of the national 55 m.p.h. limit. The federal official in charge of making the limit stick, Highway Administrator Ray Barnhart, is a reluctant taskmaster. Says he: "I think it's a stinking law, but I'm going...
Legislators in many states, including South Dakota, Virginia and Alabama, have recently admitted their problems and hiked gasoline taxes by as much as 4? per gal. Other states will surely follow. Says David Finley, of the Ohio department of transportation: "We haven't raised our gas taxes in more than two decades, but we will have to now. The condition of the roads has me very worried...