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...First-term grant applications are due by December 10, but grants will be awarded on a rolling basis. Second semester requests must be submitted by February...
...members to their ranks. White House Spokesman David Gergen said last week that the Administration would consider it a victory if Republicans "come up on the sunny side of 20" seats lost. Such a result would not be much worse than the party in power traditionally fares in first-term off-year elections, and would represent neither a rejection nor a reaffirmation of Reagan's policies. But even such modest losses would jeopardize the tenuous coalition that allowed Reagan to win victories for his tax and social-spending cuts. It would provide the Democrats with their goal...
...young couple fell in love at Longlea, Millionaire Charles E. Marsh's mock 18th century manor, set on 1,000 acres of Virginia hunt country. He was an awkward, ambitious, first-term Congressman named Lyndon Johnson, and she was Alice Glass, then 26, a stately and bright young beauty with blond-ochre hair that one admirer said "shimmered and gleamed like nothing you ever saw." The previously undisclosed love affair is described by Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert Caro in Volume I of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, excerpted in the November Atlantic Monthly...
Just as Missouri lies at the statistical center of the U.S. population, first-term Senator John Danforth, 46, is at the political center of the Republican Party. And until very recently that seemed a decidedly safe place to be. But Danforth, who confidently hoped to coast to reelection, is being challenged by Harriett Woods, 55, a peppy, articulate liberal and the only woman running for the Senate this year under the Democratic banner. Several weeks ago, a poll by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat showed Danforth with a 17-point lead. Late last week the newspaper's latest poll...
...speaking of the types of first-term blues that seem to afflict Harvard freshmen more severely than students at other schools, many counselors bring up the high-powered reputation Harvard enjoys. "An extra-heavy burden falls on kids who go to a prestigious school," says Nadja B. Gould, an experienced clinical social worker at University Health Services (UHS). "Freshmen may come in with a whole variety of expectations--from their family, their school and themselves...