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...those who employ such rhetoric to criticize the protesters tend to ignore the legitimate and laudable efforts by protest groups to publicize their views. The community might do well to go beyond basic principles and necessary freedoms that most people accept already and begin to develop an ad hoc strategy to ensure free speech for all while recognizing the legitimacy of minority dissent...
...matters. Even supporters suggest that Dole's immersion in the details of legislation has blocked the mental leap to a broad-gauge view of national leadership required of a presidential candidate. Says his political consultant David Keene: "Legislative experience teaches you to be tactical and think on an ad hoc basis. He's got to reach inside himself and talk about what he believes and what he sees for the country." Characteristically, Dole's rejoinder is a quip: "Your vision might be 20/20 today, but a few months from now, you might find that you need contacts...
Although the whole house will not vote on thenew policy, Fraser and the ad hoc housingcommittee held a meeting last night to explain thechanges to interested students...
Seth D. Koven, a graduate student in history and member of the ad-hoc committee that organized the week, said the week's "first interest is to promote the study of women's history at Harvard...
...recent years the nation has been conducting what amounts to an ad hoc experiment in discouraging welfare applicants. Under Reagan Administration prodding, states have tightened eligibility rules. Partly as a result, the number of AFDC families peaked at 3.9 million in 1981 and has declined slightly since. Benefit increases since 1970 have lagged so far behind inflation that the real value of combined federal and state AFDC grants has plummeted...