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Though the Reform Party will not have the perks and privileges of being the official opposition, it will surely be solicited as an ally by the Bloc Quebecois on many occasions. Both parties lean to the right and represent many older Canadians. Nevertheless, one major difference exists between the two factions. While the avowed purpose of the Bloc Quebecois is increased independence for Quebec, the Reform Party represents a constituency that resents Quebec's existing special status and would rather see the province become a sovereign state than grant it more privileges...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: A Model of Democratic Change | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...mess with the Harvard police. They're lean, mean law-enforcing machines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welcome To Club Harvard | 10/23/1993 | See Source »

...knows--maybe this weekend I'll convert all my first-year papers to Microsoft Word. Or throw out my long suffering jeans. Or buy a new lamp that doesn't lean. Or give away the old pencil case I never...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Something Old, Nothing New | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...idea was never seriously considered. "The R-word was absolutely forbidden," says an outside expert who attended health adviser Ira Magaziner's planning meetings. Quite shrewdly, it seems. In most opinion polls, citizens lean against rationing, even in the abstract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out in the Cold? | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

When you vote for a candidate--for any office--the bills he or she supports tend to come with the package. When the candidate is a Democrat, it's a safe bet that those programs will lean a bit to the left. Those are the rules. Voters look out for their self-interests, and for their pocketbooks. Those, too, are the rules...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: `New Democrats' And Other Tall Tales | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

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