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When Democrats ran the house, the health and environment subcommittee office was a no-smoking preserve ruled by anti- tobacco crusader Representative Henry Waxman. Today the subcommittee is part of the domain of Republican Thomas Bliley Jr., a pipe lover who hails from the tobacco state of Virginia. Smoking is now accepted in the old subcommittee room, and congressional aides gleefully flick their ashes into a glass ashtray placed atop Waxman's picture...
...south, she packs up her daughter and heads home to the family horse farm and a confrontation with the past that made her what she is--a woman too emotionally guarded and self-denying for her own good. Dad (Robert Duvall) is the soft-drawling dictator of a prosperous domain. Mom (Gena Rowlands) is the perpetual placater, for whom niceness is a moral imperative. Big Sister (Kyra Sedgwick) has a tough but funny tongue and, one guesses, a damaged soul...
Rudenstine emphasizes that the issues Congresshas targeted are funding for basic research andfinancial aid for graduate students-- both ofwhich of lie outside the domain of Colleges...
...president emphasized, however, that hissupport does not extend into the term-timecurriculum, which he said is the domain of theFaculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). FAS membershave said it would be difficult to convinceprofessors to contribute term time to studentpublic service projects...
...Qualifications and procedures for election as a candidate to be an "outside member" are not in the public domain. In contrast, it is well known that for a Visiting Committee election, interest, knowledge, sponsorship and monetary generosity to Harvard...