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...Congressman from Illinois with a distinctive helmet of white hair emerged from political obscurity to attack Reagan's economic proposals and Carter's foreign policy and to attract an army of idealistic supporters. With a late start and without a billionaire's bank account, Anderson was still able to garner nearly 7% of the vote, provoking pols and pundits to ponder anew the viability of independent and third-party candidacies. Today Anderson, a visiting professor of law at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, travels the lecture circuit as president of the World Federalist Association, an organization that promotes world...
According to Pierce Professor of Psychology Robert Rosenthal, who joined Harvard's faculty in 1962, Leary suggested that the students in his introductory graduate course in clinical psychology use psilocybin to garner "insights" into the human psyche...
Washington is in love with the language of recovery, so much so that Mayor Marion Barry was able to garner bouquets of sympathy as he trotted off for physical and spiritual renewal necessitated, he said, by working so hard for the city. Whatever happened to taking a vacation, quietly, without invoking a 12-step program? For the moment, everyone is taken up by the melodrama of whether the mayor may be slipping back into drugs and alcohol--all because of the pressure. Many have forgotten that the pressure has been brought on by the mayor himself. It was Barry...
...Governors Weld, Whitman and Pataki, displaying either political principle or electoral pragmatism, have vowed to modify the platform to include pro-choice politicians like them. Weld is now pressuring the party to appoint new, pro-choice delegates to represent Massachusetts at the Republican convention this summer. He hopes to garner support for a more open, tolerant platform...
...that there was enough interest in whitepower music to justify the creation of the group. Thus, the CFV became seen as a political attempt to railroad whitepower sentiment into the mainstream and was rightfully dismissed by many in the Usenet community as lacking the relevance which is necessary to garner a "yes" vote...