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...Ford Professor of Social Sciences emeritus David Riesman said that student and faculty interests should be addressed in a search process, but he does not support having faculty or students on the search committee...
Lazio may be more willing to add some rough edges to his Little League, High School Stamp Club and Youth for Ford persona if his early successes hadn't come without his having had to bare his teeth. While Lazio rightly gets credit for a David vs. Goliath victory over 18-year veteran Tom Downey in 1992, Downey largely defeated himself. In the memorable words of the national Republican Party chairman, the party was willing to "stuff money into every orifice" to capitalize on the weakness of an incumbent already hemorrhaging from self-inflicted wounds, like overdrafts at the House...
...supersize awards didn't just make victims and lawyers rich. They also got corporations to take notice--and to change their conduct. The Ford Pinto, alleged to be prone to erupt in flames after rear-end collisions, was taken off the market. Drugs with severe side effects, such as "phen-fen," were yanked from pharmacy shelves. A $1.8 million verdict in 1980 on behalf of a four-year-old girl who had been badly burned in 1970 persuaded a manufacturer to stop making flammable pajamas--and helped spur more rigorous federal regulations on children's sleepwear...
...know it's a slow news day when former president Gerald Ford makes the front page of anything besides the Grand Rapids Golfer's Gazette. But the New York Daily News' "exclusive" bid Monday to transform the normally inconsequential chatter of a political nonentity into serious campaign fodder was questionable perhaps only in its placement...
While the article, "Ford Urges Bush to Select Pro-Choicer as Running Mate," could have easily been relegated to the editorial section, there's nothing wrong with the piece; the former president's logic is hardly out of left field (and what better pundit than he on the caprices of the vice-presidency?). Apparently Ford, found celebrating his 87th birthday at his Rocky Mountain vacation home, is convinced that a George W. Bush victory hinges on the governor's ability to find a "quietly" pro-choice running mate, like Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge. Ridge's selection will appeal to moderate...