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...Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, complained that the Administration was making congressional Democrats look like wild spenders in other avoidable ways. He argued that the White House, by overestimating revenues, had made it appear that its proposed budget for fiscal 1978 was $6.5 billion less than the one Congress had in mind. In fact, claimed Muskie, the Administration's budget was only $1 billion less than the Hill's. Said the Senator: "We'd appreciate more accuracy so we won't look so bad. We should both have the same estimates...
...been "defense, a ceaseless struggle to save their homes, their resources, their lives." This view may exaggerate the constancy of the Indians' will during an era when they were displaced by a relentlessly expanding society. Yet that will has plainly stiffened. In Apologies to the Iroquois (1959), Edmund Wilson noted the emergence of a sort of Indian "nationalism" that he likened to that of the Israelis. Clearly, some new assertiveness began crystallizing among the Indians in the 1960s, when they came under the sway of the same influences that had aroused many other minorities into bristling self-awareness. Suddenly...
Champion fit the bill pretty well. He was a reporter on a financial beat for the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1950s, and spent the year 1956-57 at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow in journalism. He was press secretary to Edmund G. Brown Sr. in his campaign for Governor of California, and was the state's director of finances in 1961-62. He also had experience as the vice president of the University of Minnesota for finances, planning and operations, and served as the director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 1968-69. Champion came to Harvard...
British philosopher Edmund Burke once said that the study of law "renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources." In the U.S., 30,000 students per year now graduate from the nation's 164 accredited law schools, and many go on to become powerful influences in government and business as well as law. If they carry with them the virtues that Burke commended, it is largely due to the men and women who have taught them. Some such figures are already legends-Paul Freund of Harvard, for example, or Philip Kurland of Chicago...
...EDMUND WILSON...