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...Republicans have targeted New Jersey and Ohio as two key states, and have been able to recruit viable candidates in each. The GOP is still hopeful that Pete Dawkins will be able to upset Democratic incumbent Frank Lautenberg in the Garden State despite polls showing Dawkins slightly behind. Dawkins--a Heisman Trophy winner at West Point who became an Army General and later a successful business executive--would seem a mirror image of Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), who went from Princeton to Oxford to the New York Knicks to the U.S. Senate. But after performing well in early...
...major campus organizations, including the council, Phillips Brooks House and the Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee, there are no women in top positions now, although there have been many in the past. The organizations in which women predominate--and lead--are groups such as Crimson Key or those where the focus is more specifically tied to women's issues...
...Supreme Court has been on the cutting edge of civil rights advances. Now, however, the Justices may be on the verge of a historic rollback. In an unusual move, the court last week considered whether to overturn its 1976 ruling in Runyon v. McCrary, a key civil rights decision. That possibility prompted a flood of briefs from Senators, Congressmen, state attorneys general and civil rights groups urging the court not to overrule Runyon...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr. remarks, "Television has replaced the political party." It controls agenda and voter turnout at the polls, two key traditional functions of the party. In the election of 1880, the political parties were so good at motivating voters that 80% of them voted, despite two weak candidates -- Garfield and Hancock -- and no strong issues...
Italy's M.P.s have long enjoyed a luxury in West European democracies: a secret ballot. Free to vote as they pleased, ignoring party discipline and constituents, parliamentarians often defeated their own governments on key legislation. The franchi tiratori, or snipers, were a primary cause of instability in Italian politics -- and largely responsible for the frequent changes of government. Last week the six-month-old coalition of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita said, "Enough...