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Even as the conferees pared down the budget to better satisfy key Senators, liberal House members claimed that the compromise was cutting too deep into spending for social-welfare programs. The marketing marathon, meanwhile, was already showing signs of diminishing returns: an invitation to 40 moderate Democrats on Tuesday generated 19 regrets. Hours before a small White House dinner for 14 Thursday night, two undecided Democratic Senators begged off. "You know," fretted a White House official, "we might be overdoing this...
Starting last Friday, much of America was in the middle of it as Operation Rescue kicked off a 10-day marathon titled "Cities of Refuge." The campaign featured speeches, rallies and pickets in seven urban areas: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Cleveland, Ohio; Philadelphia; Dallas-Fort Worth; San Jose, California; Jackson, Mississippi; and the area around Melbourne. Among its goals, explained spokeswoman Wendy Wright, is to ensure that "anyone in the continental United States ((is)) within a day's drive of a rescue." To pro- choicers, the implication is chilling: the transformation of abortion- clinic picketing from an activity for incensed...
...commissioners heard all the arguments again last week in Washington. After three months of hearings, they wound up with a marathon three-day session that featured speeches by 56 Senators and 153 Representatives, all eager to protect the bases in their districts. Then, finally, the commissioners listened to Defense Secretary Les Aspin and General Colin Powell, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who advised them firmly to stick to the Pentagon's plan for closures. "I believe my original recommendations are still correct," said Aspin...
Looking back, all those sacrifices seem to have been worth it to Alonzo. Though she took junior year off to concentrate on her lab work and to run the Boston Marathon (which she completed in less than four hours), her three years at Blodgett Pool will always hold a special place in her heart...
Members of the University's Board of Overseers participated in a marathon day of back-to-back meetings yesterday at their last gathering of the academic year...