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...intelligence, the three-term Senator in recent years has played a more statesmanlike role. "I'm sort of a consensus builder," he says. To the consternation of the Reagan Administration, he has pushed for tax hikes along with spending reductions as the only way to make a sizable dent in the deficit. Dole has the most serious national ambitions: he was the vice-presidential nominee in 1976, made an abortive bid for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1980, and is thinking hard about 1988. His colleagues may be reluctant to give him visibility and thus an early edge...
...Afghan youngsters who have been forcibly sent to the Soviet Union over the past four years. One Western diplomat in Islamabad, Pakistan, says that the Soviets, faced with widespread opposition in Afghanistan, "may have concluded that nothing short of Sovietization inside the U.S.S.R. would make much of an ideological dent in Afghan youth...
...eclipse can now be seen from North America, as the band launches its first tour any time, anywhere. Frankie has yet to make a deep dent in the U.S. charts; they are still more of a curiosity Stateside than a genuine phenomenon, which raises the question of why they did not start to concertize on home turf. Catching the group live may provide an answer. They need the studio, with all its electronics and synthesized sleight of hand; they need the invention of Producer Trevor Horn, his ability to sandwich them like luncheon meat between thick layers of sound. They...
...growth or curb the rate of growth in government spending. Experts point out that even under best-case scenarios for the deficit, growth would have to be continuous for the next half-dozen years, hardly the stuff of reality. And as for budget cuts, Reagan hasn't made a dent: he has merely replaced which-needed social spending with $500 Defense Department hammers. The total is the same...
...pressure has come from administrators. Concern over the state of American education was crystallized in a 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education titled A Nation at Risk. Prompted by such concern, some educators are stressing that the first years of school profoundly affect a stu dent's future performance. Leslie Williams, associate professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College, concludes, "There's a current notion that' if we start correctly on the ground floor, maybe we can fix things...