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...skilled at sitting above the fray and pulling the strings attached to all parts of the University. Rudenstine, however, subscribes to a very different leadership philosophy, emphasizing the personal over the institutional...
...next day, the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine, also decided to enter the fray...
...Dole has hoped to stay above the fray and take the battle to Clinton. He asked his aides two weeks ago to prepare a series of speeches on foreign policy, economics, crime and values that make clear where he differs from the incumbent President. The first came last Friday, when Dole referred to Clinton 22 times, lambasting him for his "liberal appointments" to the federal bench and promising to "appoint judges who respect the rule of law," who "understand that society is not to blame for crime, criminals...
...demands to stand with his teammates for the national anthem. But during the brief suspension statements of solidarity and condemnation amassed with great speed. The ACLU readied its forces, the American Legion cried "treason" and columnists flocked to both sides of the debate. The New York Times entered the fray on Thursday, late, but with force, rebuking the NBA for having "damaged core democratic ideals" by suspending Abdul-Rauf...
...unofficial start of the general election comes at a high point for Clinton, who has been floating above the fray, and at a low one for Dole, who had been having his head handed to him for months by his primary foes. It is not surprising that Dole, whose reserve is at once his greatest weapon and his greatest weakness in a battle with Clinton, had hardly anything to say when his top aides appeared Tuesday night in his ornate Senate office to tell him he had swept eight states and was on his way to the nomination...