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...people's rejection of the pain they have endured for a decade. Give us a chance, they said. End the war. Save the economy. The immediate target of their wrath was the Sandinistas, but the U.S. too bears a share of responsibility. It now owes Nicaragua generous help if it wants democracy to flourish...
...same time, the Treasury Department is having trouble replacing M. Danny Wall, the head of the Office of Thrift Supervision, who oversees the surviving S&Ls. Wall resigned in December but has been asked to stay on, even though he was sharply criticized last year for giving overly generous Government guarantees to buyers of crippled...
...section on financial pressures, there was only a brief statement that "the Law School recently started a loan forgiveness plan for those entering public interest careers." In reality, the Low Income Protection Plan has existed at Harvard Law School for 10 years and is one of the most generous plans of its kind in the country. Undergraduates who are applying to law schools and are interested in working in the public sector should find out more about this plan from our Admissions Office...
...worse than absurd to say we cannot afford to be generous because of our own debts and social problems. As Bush proclaimed in the State of the Union, we are the most productive nation in the world, at least for the moment. The very collapse of communism will save us billions. If we choose to consume our riches (and more) rather than invest and share them, that is a statement about our spiritual condition, not our economic one. Which brings us back to the question of greatness...
Shifting public attitudes are one reason that the most potent N.R.A. weapon -- the threat to swamp opponents on Election Day -- has been proving harder to deliver. The association's political-action committee, the fifth most generous in the country, spent nearly $4.7 million to back political candidates in the 1988 election, up from $876,000 in 1980. Yet according to a study by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, the N.R.A. has failed to unseat a single one of its targeted incumbents in the past two congressional elections...