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...Today, halfway through his 13th year as dean, McArthur is at the height of his professional career, far removed from the Vancouver sawmill where he got his start...
...House of Representatives began to vote on his $246 billion deficit- reduction plan last Thursday night, Clinton calculated that he had perhaps one or two votes more than the 217 he needed for passage. But halfway into the 15-minute voting period, two Democrats the White House thought it had won over, James Hayes of Alabama and Tim Johnson of South Dakota, voted nay. Instantly, Clinton's margin disappeared. On Capitol Hill a nervous Howard Paster, the top Clinton lobbyist, telephoned White House chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty in the Oval Office. Mack, he said, "what's happening...
...crusty Aiken came down from Putney, Vermont, determined to nudge his G.O.P. to the left. Immediately he confronted Ike-confidant Styles Bridges of New Hampshire. "No more middle of the road," Aiken declared, "when that is ! halfway between Grant and McKinley." Later he would counsel President Johnson on Vietnam: "Declare victory and leave...
...psychology of political ascendance turns out to be complicated as well. Liberals these days are called upon to perform the novel, and surprisingly arduous, exercise of hoping for a President to succeed. Some aren't up to it. American liberals have basically been in opposition mode since around 1966, halfway through L.B.J.'s second term (except perhaps for a week or two in 1977 at the beginning of the Carter Administration). For most, that period covers their entire politically aware lives. Many are too young to have experienced firsthand the euphoria of J.F.K.'s Camelot...
...second shots and a green with the flatness of the Alps once up the hill. Three of Crimson golfers missed putts inside of four feet after poor lags to the far-left pin position. But Radtke had perhaps the cruelest break of all. His drive was too perfect, stopping halfway down a slope, impeded by a burrowing animal hole, and leaving him with no chance to hit a shot with enough elevation to clear the rise in front...