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...tough," Reidy said. "We're 2-6. I don't think beating Penn and Yale [November 19] will salvage our season. I think it would make the off-season a little easier to bear...
...says Graham's campaign accuses Thompson of being "in the pocket of developers" and against rent control. Albano charges that Thompson supports Proposition 1-2-3, a 1989 municipal ballot question that would make it easier to take apartments off of rent control. But Thompson said he has oppossed the measure since he heard of it in September...
...aristocratic Vice President would seem like an ideal target. Son of a Wall Street banker and U.S. Senator. Andover. Yale. Kennebunkport. What could be easier? But Bush reversed the normal equation. The man with four names jettisoned his g's, touted his taste for pork rinds and successfully put himself across as a regular guy. Bush persuaded voters to forget his background by pushing to the foreground the themes of cultural, not economic, populism: patriotism (the flag and the Pledge) and toughness on crime. His campaign has cynically mined the white fears and racism that feed this form of cultural...
...aggressively and (if necessary) unilaterally supporting American interests and values around the world, arming a movement here, putting pressure on a dictatorship there, as J.F.K. put it, "to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Without an Evil Empire to contend with, the job becomes easier -- there is less need to support dictators in the name of anti- Communism -- but harder to justify. Why make the effort? Seventy years ago, Americans were not wildly enthusiastic about Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy. Whether a post-Soviet America will want to embrace Wilsonian idealism any more than...
Another significant factor is that many doctors perform caesareans at the first signs of fetal distress to protect themselves from malpractice suits. Moreover, caesareans demand less time for physicians in the delivery room. "It's a lot easier for a doctor to schedule a woman for caesarean and come in at 8 in the morning and be done by 8:30," says Mortimer Rosen, director of obstetrics and gynecology at New York's Presbyterian Hospital...