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...George W. Bush and Al Gore, who've spent the last few days running themselves into the campaign trail. Monday, both candidates traveled thousands of miles, kissed countless babies and stumped until their throats were raw. The strain was showing on both men; at a Sunday rally in Dearborn, Mich., Gore twice called Bruce Hornsby, the evening's entertainment, Rogers Hornsby, who as we all know was in fact the Rajah, the fabulous (and deceased) second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals during the '20s. Meanwhile Bush provided his usual quota of flubs, calling the inheritance tax the "death penalty...
...also faced congressional roadblocks. Tire-safety standards have not budged for 32 years, despite repeated calls for revision. But standing in the way of efforts to expand NHTSA's regulatory powers are such pro-auto legislators as John Dingell, the House Commerce Committee's senior Democrat, who is from Dearborn, Mich. (an auto center), and Michael Oxley, a Republican from Finley, Ohio (a tire center). Billy Tauzin, the committee's chairman, from Louisiana, tried several years ago to cut back on NHTSA's enforcement authority...
...Dearborn, who worked on a unionized teaching staff at the State University of New York at Albany before coming to Harvard, agreed that unionization would not strain TF-professor relationships...
...think that's sort of rhetoric that's thrown out by opponents [of the ruling]," Dearborn said. "In many cases teachers have unions, so my experience at the University of New York was that [the professors] supported us, whether it be above-table...
...going to use these individuals in a capacity as employees and try to skirt around it by saying they're students, it's completely unfair to the graduate students," Dearborn added. "It's sort of a labor pool they're able to abuse...