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...aides. Reed, whose low-key style has helped him earn and keep Dole's trust, has shepherded his balky candidate through the difficult primaries, but has been slow to put a strategic framework on the general-election campaign. Sensing the boss's flickering fuse, Reed tried last week to enlist some graybeards who could give Dole what he wants--and still leave Reed firmly in control. But Reed's group looked like a Who's Who of Washington veterans and influence peddlers: former Senators Paul Laxalt and Warren Rudman and lobbyists Tom Korologos and Bill Timmons...
...setbacks, over the long run, comprehensive engagement, in a more muscular form than that practiced in recent years, has the best chance of creating a balanced, fruitful relationship. The U.S. should be hard-nosed on nuclear proliferation and intellectual-property rights, and may find it advantageous to enlist friends' and allies' support in that endeavor instead of going it alone. In the more sensitive area of human rights, a breakthrough will probably have to await the arrival of a new generation of leaders in Beijing, but the U.S. should acknowledge whatever little progress China has made. Says Burt Levin...
Less than two weeks ago, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal, thus upholding the state's decision. According to the Court, Ian's mother, step-father and the two practitioners were negligent. They had a responsibility to the child to take him to the hospital; in their decision to enlist prayer and not medicine, they were accomplices in his death...
...Gramm surprised Dole by tying him in the Ames straw poll last August, Dole tried to beef up his statewide organization. His campaign now has local operatives in each of the state's 99 counties, but their quality is questionable. In the Le Mars area, the campaign wanted to enlist Mary Reynolds, a former g.o.p. county chairman and Dole fan. Reynolds refused when she realized she wasn't going to get the help she needed. "It was clear in our conversations that the Washington headquarters was pressuring the in-state people to show immediate movement," says Reynolds. "There...
...effort to enlist support for its quest for financial independence from the University, about 10 to 15 members of Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. (PBHA) traveled to New Haven for The Game, according to secretary Scott McCue...