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...disdainful of traditional liberal nostrums. But against the fiscally conservative Tsongas, Clinton has had to find other points of contrast in their philosophies. He has reached out to traditional Democrats -- minorities, working-class families, older voters still enamored of the New Deal. Without changing any of his positions an iota, Clinton has inched rhetorically toward being the compassion candidate. Tsongas, he says, "wants to make life harder for ((working people)). We want to make life somewhat easier for people already paying the bills...
...never been easy to approach, alive or dead. The "rock- born giant," as Bernard Berenson called him, with his dedication to archaeology and his obsession with empirical vision, was one of the quintessential artists of the early Italian Renaissance. He was innovative, flinty and tough-minded, without an iota of sentiment...
...women, who were selected from among the 48 students with the highest grade point averages in their class, will join 12 other members of the Class of 1992 who last spring joined the Iota chapter of the national academic honor society...
...part of a package," says Peter Gethers, the publisher of Villard Books as well as a novelist and screenwriter. "It gives producers and studio people something to hold in their hands, instead of just pitching an intangible idea to a director or actor. They trust themselves not an iota. And rightly so, since they don't know what makes a good movie, and they don't know how to turn a book into a movie. So they're buying up a lot of books. And from these they will get screenplays that just don't work. Once that happens, they...
However, Cambridge Conservation Commission Director Elizabeth Epstein, the city's official spokesperson on the committee, was less optimistic, saying that "the city's position has not changed one iota" from its initial opposition to Scheme Z. She said she would be hard-pressed to consent to the River Crossing or any like variant and added that she has "good reason to believe that there are better alternatives...