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...Palestinian Authority's security forces. Sharon needed the break, having seen his right-wing government dissolve after he lost a vote among his Likud Party members in May over the withdrawal plan. With most Labor chiefs in favor of the Gaza withdrawal, party activists said they will likely join the government. Arafat has been stalling on reform. In a Cabinet meeting last week, he threw out one of his top security aides, Jibril Rajoub, who urged him to revamp the security forces. "Get out of here," Arafat yelled at Rajoub. If Labor does take its place in Sharon's government...
...about reinventing government, trying free-market approaches to problems like public housing and health care that they once saw chiefly as targets for tax dollars. Four years after Reagan left office, the enduring popularity of his ideas obliged Clinton to back away from his 1993 stimulus spending package in favor of a budget more agreeable to the bond markets. When Clinton's proposed health plan started looking like a return to Big Government, voters rose up to produce the '94 Republican sweep of Congress. By May of that year, only 2% of Americans were telling pollsters they...
Reagan's impact on the judiciary has been profound. Federal courts today are far more willing to question racial and ethnic preferences. Mandatory busing for school desegregation is now a museum piece. Court rulings in criminal cases are far more likely to favor law enforcement. Laws once prohibited even moments of silence in classrooms and remedial education for the underprivileged in sectarian schools. Now school vouchers for use in private schools, both secular and sectarian, hold up in courts...
...many Harvard affiliates still forgo the privilege of being buried on the hill, in favor of their family plots...
According to a Crimson poll conducted last December, 49 percent of students who would vote Republican in a hypothetical Congressional election said they supported the court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriages, while 43 percent said they disagreed with the decision...