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...September 26, Penn's Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution asking Fagin not to suspend the harassment code until Penn "develop[s] and enact[s] alternative and comprehensive plans to deal with the lack of respect on our campus...
...Colorado amendment which Mansfield was defending denies homosexuals no civil or political rights; what it does prohibit is legislation defining gays and lesbians as a protected minority. Should the government be forced to enact employment quotas for homosexuals, prevented from considering homosexuality in adoption placements, prohibited from encouraging marriage and family life...
...Sophistry, an almost random set of fashionably themed vignettes by Jonathan Marc Sherman, the teacher and student re-enact their encounter in parallel recollections. Rapp rampages through both, first as a bratty seducer who hides doubts about his sexuality by swiveling his hips, shaking a finger cockily in the professor's face, tearing off his own clothes and collapsing in puppyish self-pity, then as a mute but furious victim. His vengeance gives Pendleton a career moment too. Reduced to a job as Santa, he stands disheveled, muttering the words of one Christmas carol while hearing the tune of another...
Clinton's reform plan grew from a necessary campaign plank into a centerpiece of his presidency, and the President's attitude was marked by a whatever-it-takes practicality. For one thing, his aides reworked the timing of the scheme. Clinton now concedes he will need another year to enact his plan and three more to put it fully into place. After insisting that raising taxes wasn't necessary, Clinton's aides made an increase part of the strategy, then scaled the proposed taxes back to just a levy on cigarettes. Clinton fashioned the plan to curry the support...
Clinton imposed a daunting 100-day deadline for Magaziner: he asked for a report by early May. In his Feb. 17 speech to Congress about his economic program, Clinton went further, ad-libbing a line that repeated his impossible campaign promise to enact the measure in 1993. And then he turned his attention to the budget...