Word: midterms
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...asked him how basketball was going. "Terrible," he said. He had made what he thought was the last cut. The varsity team was at 16 when, the day before his first Harvard midterm, the coach called to tell him he'd been cut. "I could hardly concentrate on studying," he said. And he actually considered leaving Harvard...
...other business, the council approved a resolution changing the election process for vacated seats. The amendments to the bylaws will allow the representatives from the district and the district's house committee chairman to appoint a successor until midterm elections are held at the end of the fall semester. Under the previous by-laws, a special election--administered by the council's vice-chair--filled each vacancy as it occurred...
Analyst Horace Busby, a former Lyndon Johnson aide, went to Princeton the other day and warned that "unbridled partisanship implants within our free system the seeds of its destruction." A collision is coming, he said. "Americans are demanding performance, not partisanship, not provocations, not promises." The Democrats in their midterm convention in Philadelphia last summer seemed like a collection of caucuses (gays, women, blacks, et cetera) fiercely loyal only to themselves. If there was a transcending theme, nobody caught it amid all the self-centered statements and accusations...
Barrett's midterm report on the Reagan Administration has already prompted news coverage of unknown or underreported events. A Reagan "mole" obtained President Carter's point-by-point strategy for the candidates' televised debate. Aide Richard Darman spirited away copies of constitutional documents to keep the Cabinet from weighing Reagan's fitness to hold office after he was shot. White House Chief of Staff James Baker, then manager of George Bush's presidential campaign, announced Bush's withdrawal from the California primary without consulting the candidate. But the book offers more than nuggets...
SOME MERELY HARANGUING the president is no longer enough. It was fine when the Administration was railroading through its drastic measures, and a barrage of criticism was the only chance for a derailment. It made sense at the midterm elections, when in some districts the mere affiliation with Republicanism meant political death; eight-term Rep. Margaret Heckler of Southern Massachusetts was one such victim. Now, though, with the Reagan consensus clearly struggling, the only way to kill it off is with an appealing alternative agenda...