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...easy to look around and see sameness, to find friends that echo your interests and backgrounds and agree with your world views. And sometimes (especially in this post-randomization era) friends like that are important. But sameness gets boring and stagnates quickly. In our dining halls (if not in our third-place classrooms) we have the unique opportunity for the most incredible learning of our lifetimes as we explore together in search of a fit for all the peculiarities of our size and self--small, medium, large and otherwise...
...when Clinton said, "Our job is to give people the tools to make the most of their own lives," the echo was distinctive. He was exactly where he had been four years before, when, speaking equally of rights and responsibilities, he seemed to realize instinctively that voters wanted a minimalist but compassionate national government. So Clinton went forward by reaching back to the preliberal American tradition that sought to empower citizens with programs like the G.I. Bill, the Homestead Act and Land Grant colleges...
...curtain, and enact the body language of victory--thumb up, quick-flash smile, the arm that doesn't hold the pen punching the air in a go-get-'em arc. The crowd would always stand and applaud. "We love you, Bob!" someone would yell, and the unmuffled sound would echo too well, because the hall was always half empty...
...ECHO BOOMERS School districts across nation face overflowing classes as baby boomers' babies come...
...initiatives." Clinton will present his "think small" approach as a steady process of building growth and opportunity through such measures as tax breaks for homeowners and assistance for inner-city job creation. National Political Correspondent Michael Duffy reports: "Clinton's speech in Chicago is designed to be an ironic echo of Bob Dole's speech in San Diego, where he said that America needs to return to the values that made it great; by contrast, the President will argue that the Repulicans are looking backward and the Democrats are looking forward." Where Dole proposed to build a bridge...