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...Clinton administration has proven itself full of master-brainstormers. The First Lady heads a so-called "Task Force"--a rather interesting turn of a phrase, since the carton of egg-heads at its helm has accomplished no tasks outside of its own deliberations, and has applied no force to effect any actual changes in the external world. The Secretary of the Interior came up with a great plan to change the way federal lands are managed. The Department of Health and Human Services floated a proposal for federally funded childhood immunization. Clinton himself formulated a much ballyhooed stimulus package...
Promising to be an active representative of the concerns of Black students, Alvin Bragg '95 last night took the helm as president of the Black Students Association...
...that Randall never picks the wrong horse and press-gangs him into partnership. In lesser roles are such familiar stage and screen faces as John Beal, Joey Faye, Ellen Greene, Julie Hagerty, Zane Lasky and Jerry Stiller. With John Tillinger, one of the ablest directors of comedy, at the helm, the show gives every promise of amusement...
Since Graham took over the helm in 1991, a series of increasingly disasterous events has befallen the team, incidents which have gone hand-in-hand with the team's decline...
...burned and looted landscape. People looked forward to healing the strife between warring black, white, Hispanic and Asian groups, and between the community and the police. Hope soared all the higher when former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who had run the dazzlingly successful 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, took the helm of Rebuild L.A., the city's formal rebuilding effort. Angelenos also warmly greeted new police chief Willie Williams, who arrived from Philadelphia in July after the forced resignation of the combative Daryl Gates. The era of good feeling even produced a truce between street gangs and a summer-long drop...