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George Bush had gone before a joint session of Congress three days earlier and made his way through something of the same incredulous, almost goofy daze, through washes of applause amid a sea of American flags. He took the triumph with grins and body English becomingly modest in a man enjoying a 90% approval rating in the polls and what in the conventional wisdom of the moment seemed the all but certain prospect of re-election...
Republican strategists doubt that the President's skyrocketing approval ratings will translate into clout with the Democrat-controlled Congress. Thus Bush will not squander his popularity in bold attacks on the country's myriad domestic problems. Instead, he will submit modest domestic proposals like last week's warmed-over housing and educational "opportunity" initiative, so that, in the words of one White House official, "nobody can say we don't have a domestic agenda." Still, Bush will try not to let the Democrats shift the national focus to social issues...
...from Kennedy through Nixon, were consumed by a debate over federal antipoverty efforts -- a Washington policy war that combined the worst features of academic detachment and fang-baring political ambition. His heroes are the migrants who managed to clamber into the middle class, mostly on the narrow foothold of modest government jobs. His villains -- and there are more of those -- are the politicians and policymakers of both left and right who botched the War on Poverty...
...Core classes, excluding Ec 10, is about 160 students. Assuming that the average section has 20 students, that makes eight sections per Core course. Since students must fulfill eight Core areas, they could expect to have at least one section taught by a professor during their Harvard career. A modest figure indeed...
Efforts to combat teen problem gambling are still fairly modest. Few states offer educational programs that warn young people about the addictive nature of gambling; treatment programs designed for youths are virtually nonexistent. In Minnesota, where a study found that more than 6% of all youths between 15 and 18 are problem gamblers, $200,000 of the expected income from the state's new lottery will go toward a youth-education campaign. That may prove to be small solace. Betty George, who heads the Minnesota Council on Compulsive Gambling, warns that the lottery and other anticipated legalized gambling activities...