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...obvious answer is Alexander, which is why the Tennessean is still hanging on. Unlike Buchanan, who counts on the media's alarm at his success to provide plenty of airtime, Alexander desperately needs both some credible allies and some help on the ground. "They had no survival strategy," muttered a campaign consultant last week. "They thought they would win or lose outright by now. They didn't think three [third-place finishes] would keep them alive." When Alexander failed to place second in New Hampshire, he lost his shot at the big-name endorsements his aides had been touting...
...doubt that it's time to sort out the confusion between federal and state duties. And by "marrying liberal ends with conservative means," as Urban Institute scholar Isabel Sawhill says a tax credit tries to do, we may be able to "get past our current impasse and find common ground." The real question is whether the social safety net is the right thing to devolve, as opposed to more dubiously "national" tasks like bridge building and job training...
These new professors were plucked from Northwestern University, Columbia University and the University of California at San Diego, respectively. Jencks, who has shared the spotlight with Wilson as one of the nation's most influential sociologists, has written extensively about socio-economic inequality and the homeless. Newman has done ground-breaking research on the urban working poor, and Borjas is an expert on the relationship between immigration and labor markets...
Rounding out a three-way tie for third in the league, Brown (10-14, 7-5) also lost ground to Cornell last weekend, blowing past hopeless Columbia (68-55), but falling to the Big Red in Ithaca...
...here," Dole snapped after one particularly testy exchange with Forbes. For his part, Buchanan was hit hard by the other three on his protectionist trade stance. But despite accusations that the tariffs that Buchanan supports would destroy a South Carolina revived by foreign investors like BMW, Buchanan held his ground. Dole in the end tried to move the focus away from his competition and toward a common foe: "This is about defeating Bill Clinton in 1996 and there is one candidate who can beat Bill Clinton in 1996 and that is Bob Dole...