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...think the groundwork was laid for a healthy dialogue about affirmative action among students with a variety of perspectives," said Kent B. McNellie '99, chair...
...Dems Publications Committee has laid the groundwork for a new liberal magazine. An internship program is in the works. Various speakers and debates have been planned and programs to both strengthen the Democrats' ties with other organizations on campus and improve relations between College Democrats from across Massachusetts are already under...
...consult them on either the Medicare plan or the President's choice of Colorado Governor Roy Romer as the new party chairman. Bowles promised he would meet with them regularly from now on. But no amount of cajoling from the White House will keep Gephardt from laying more groundwork for a presidential run. Just days before the AFL-CIO conference, he plans to cross the border into Mexico to highlight, as an aide says, "the unmet promise of NAFTA," the 1993 trade agreement that Gore publicly backed and the unions, joined by Gephardt, ardently opposed. Gephardt has also hired...
...hand, a financial coup, bringing a league that got $75,000 from Dumont television for its title game only in 1951 into one of the wealthiest sports entities in the world. The current television contract, for which Rozelle set the groundwork, gets $1.58 billion for four years from Fox alone, more than 2,000 times what Rozelle got in his first contract with...
...have in the past, Governors may provide some of it. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman could help her party overcome its problems among female voters, though Whitman's pro-choice position on abortion makes her unacceptable to the right. And there's Colin Powell, who is laying the groundwork for something or other. Last week he made last-minute donations to five Republican candidates around the country. One was Robert Smith of New Hampshire, a very conservative Senator who would ordinarily be an odd enthusiasm for Powell, who supports abortion rights and affirmative action. But Smith has been...