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Newly elected undergraduate Council Vice President Justin C. Label '97 said last night that Liston and Gregoire admitted that they worked together to prevent candidate Randall A. Fine '96 from becoming president...
...Label described a lunch conversation that occurred between Gregoire, Liston and himself last Tuesday. At that time, Label said, the two presidential candidates said they did not want Fine to become president because of his unethical dealings on the council...
Whenever a Democrat points out that some Republican policy would help the rich or hurt the poor, a Republican invariably replies that the Democrat is practicing "class warfare." The label has been applied lately to Democratic critiques of some of the policies in the Contract with America, like the capital-gains tax cut, the business-depreciation tax cut and the "middle class" tax cut that would apply to incomes up to $200,000 a year. This is supposed to be a damning critique. The implication is that class warfare is a terribly old-fashioned or impolite or downright un-American...
...came close to taking the Senate seat of the very popular Bill Bradley. In November 1993, running on a promise to cut state taxes 30%, she defeated incumbent Jim Florio. In a year's time, G.O.P. candidates were describing themselves as ``Christie Whitman Republicans,'' and wore that label to victory. Shortly before his death last year, Richard Nixon--a Jersey resident--mused that she was just the kind of candidate who could help the party's national ticket. A star was born...
Perhaps the oddest indication of Polish interest in things Jewish is a craze for kosher drinks. The hottest-selling alcoholic beverage is ``kosher vodka,'' with a label showing bearded rabbis in prayer shawls and Polish names in Hebrew-like lettering. There is also kosher beer and even kosher mineral water, not generally required of even the most orthodox of Jews, who are content to drink tap water...