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...Quincy Adams were the forerunners of today's professional politicians. They made their careers in national affairs and apprenticed for the top spot by serving in successive Cabinets. Even then, today's complaint was fashionable. The ruling elite saw office as an end in itself, wrote the educator Horace Mann. For those men, he said, the question was "Where can I be -- not what can I be." Jackson shared the public's disdain for this complacency and championed the frontiersman's ideal, the equicompetence of most men to most tasks. Like Perot, Jackson had wide support in all sections...
...Viroqua, Wis., is held high as the David that successfully fought Goliath with community promotion, searches for new businesses and government help. In Sanford, N.C., Richard Lawrence took Stone's counsel and began to cruise the Wal-Mart that opened in January, comparing prices and merchandise in his store, Mann's Hardware, a town fixture since 1927. He became more competitive in gifts, paint and hardware and reopened an industrial-supply line. "We felt the Wal-Mart impact at first," says Lawrence. "But business is coming back. With a little more time it should swing back to normal...
...beginning of the season and put the job up for grabs between Steve Bono and Steve Young. Montana, like Bird, may lead the team to one more incredible season if he can stay healthy. But he has already taken so much pounding that one good shot from a Charles Mann or Reggie White could put him on the shelf for good...
...mention the things to come, is somehow disconcerting. I understand that The Crimson editorial board is entitled to its opinions and I support the paper for printing them. However, it is equally important to report the full scope of beneficial things the Undergraduate Council does for its constituents. John Mann '93 Adams House...
...intellect had a destructive side as well: a deep-rooted, Germanic hostility to the Mediterranean wellsprings of European culture and in particular to the Jews. "Wagner is one of the most complex phenomena in the history of art and intellect, and one of the most fascinating," wrote Thomas Mann in 1940, "because he offers the most profound challenge to one's conscience...