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...just want to hear what he says," said Laura A. Coleman '99, another Irish student. "He was in the IRA. He's been picked up many times before; he should still be in prison. When I was telling my parents that I was going to see Hill, they were disgusted...
...Clinton Administration, senior officials have been urging the President to lay out a detailed urban strategy soon. TIME has learned that White House economic adviser Laura Tyson sent a confidential memo last week to all Cabinet Secretaries and top White House advisers, directing them to submit by Oct. 23 a brief summary of one policy they think would improve the economic conditions of people living in poor urban areas. In Congress, six members asked the President to appoint a commission on race relations, an idea to which the White House has responded coolly...
...make Farrakhan real, to see him calmly with eyes open. They say that while Farrakhan has undoubtedly gained stature from his successful organization of the Washington march, he is not nearly as threatening as his rhetoric makes him seem. "I abhor his racist and bigoted statements," says Laura Washington, the black editor and publisher of the Chicago Reporter, a newsletter on race relations. "They are counterproductive and unfair. But it's important for whites not to put too much stock in what he says." Loury says Farrakhan is "the leader of a black fascist sect. His people are disciplined, orderly...
They were sitting side by side, but Laura D'Andrea Tyson and Pete Domenici were worlds apart on the issue. How it's resolved in Washington's budget showdown will affect almost every American. "This is too much too fast," said Tyson, who argued that the Republican plan to balance the budget in seven years favors the wealthy. But Domenici looked at the same picture through a different lens. Without bold and rapid cutbacks, he contended, middle-class Americans will be saddled "for a long, long time to come with the hidden tax of having to pay the interest...
...session in our Washington bureau, we invited some mainstream economists, of course, including David Wyss of DRI/McGraw Hill and Allen Sinai of Lehman Brothers Global Economics. But we also added a U.S. Senator (Pete Domenici), one of Clinton's top economic advisers (Laura D'Andrea Tyson), a Cabinet member (Labor Secretary Robert Reich), a specialist on minority economics (Margaret Simms of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies), a conservative economist (Stephen Moore from the Cato Institute) and a New Democrat (Rob Shapiro of the Progressive Policy Institute...